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naught

adjective as in zero

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If the revelation fails to move you then all that came before it was for naught.

It’s all or nothing for the House, and it’s not entirely clear the Senate can get Phase Two to the south side of the Capitol, meaning the whole $4 trillion spending dream could be for naught.

From Time

On set againAll the original programming activity would be for naught without the means of production.

From Digiday

I try to devise backup plans based on unknowable factors—whether young children will be vaccinated by then, whether it will rain that weekend, forcing us to move certain festivities inside—and I wonder if it will all be for naught.

From Time

Russell Westbrook, who did not speak with reporters after the game, logged his fourth triple-double of the season for naught, scoring 22 points with 11 assists and 10 rebounds.

According to Farmaner, the reforms of 2011 have largely come to naught.

But moments later there was a twist, and with it the fear that the prayers had been for naught.

Venus' Epic Fight, for Naught Long gone are the days when Venus Williams dominated tennis, but she sure still gives it her all.

Hoping that his hi-tech marketing wiles will not go for naught, Bennett will now try to torpedo the prize ceremony.

In the end, all the praise and support from the international community was for naught.

At last he had found permanence in a life where heretofore had been naught but transience.

There are poets and writers who see naught in war but carrion, filth, savagery and horror.

Letty has just had another baby, and her dairy-maid got married and left at this busy time, and I'm sick and good for naught.

From that day my affairs have gone from bad to worse, and I have naught in the wide world but the clothes I stand up in.

Though they prayed thus, yet once again they found that the "prayer of the wicked availeth naught."

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On this page you'll find 16 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to naught, such as: cipher, nonexistence, nothing, zilch, insignificant, and useless.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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