01 n. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.
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Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.“Yet had his aspect nothing of severe.” — Dryden.
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2.
Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.
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3.
A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.“Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought.” — Is. xli. 24.“'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end.” — Dryden.
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4.
A cipher; naught.(Arith.)
Phrases & compounds
Nothing but —
only; no more than.
To make nothing of —
To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important.