Synonyms for noughts
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : nawt |
| Phonetic Transcription : nɔt |
Top 10 synonyms for noughts Other synonyms for the word noughts
- annihilation
- aught
- blank
- cipher
- diddly squat
- duck egg
- extinction
- fly speck
- goose egg
- hill of beans
- insignificancy
- lowest point
- naught
- nihility
- no thing
- nobody
- nonbeing
- nonentity
- nonexistence
- not anything
- nothing
- nothingness
- nought
- nullity
- obliteration
- oblivion
- ought
- rock bottom
- scratch
- shutout
- squat
- trifle
- void
- wind
- zero
- zilch
- zip
- zippo
- zot
Définition of noughts
Origin :- Old English nowiht "nothing," variant of nawiht (see naught). Meaning "zero, cipher" is from early 15c. Expression for nought "in vain" is late 13c. To come to nought is from 1590s.
- As in nothing/nothingness : noun emptiness, nonexistence
- As in zero : noun nothing
- As in zilch : noun nothing
- As in nothing : noun emptiness
- As in cipher : noun zero; nothingness
- He filled in the figure two below, and straggling 28 noughts for the cents.
- Extract from : « The Scarlet Feather » by Houghton Townley
- I will not insert the first figure; but two noughts followed it.
- Extract from : « Bibliomania; or Book-Madness » by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
- The wise men in a nation are as the units with the noughts in front of them.
- Extract from : « Prose Fancies (Second Series) » by Richard Le Gallienne
- The lighted streets, crossing at right angles, formed a pattern below them like the diagram for the game of noughts and crosses.
- Extract from : « Round the World in Seven Days » by Herbert Strang
- "Noughts and Crosses" is playable anywhere; all that is needed is a piece of paper—a newspaper will do—and a pencil.
- Extract from : « What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes » by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- A blank book for "Noughts and Crosses," with the framework all ready, can now be obtained.
- Extract from : « What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes » by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- This game is called “Noughts and Crosses,” in London, probably from those marks being used in the game.
- Extract from : « The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol II of II) » by Alice Bertha Gomme
- In seven years and one month he insists on that very thing, and votes for it, with his crowd of noughts behind him.
- Extract from : « Ireland as It Is » by Robert John Buckley (AKA R.J.B.)
- He spent his time trying to persuade Strang to take an interest in Noughts and Crosses.
- Extract from : « Sinister Street, vol. 1 » by Compton Mackenzie
- I've no doubt you'll find the place carpeted with zeros and hung with noughts and ciphers.
- Extract from : « The Million-Dollar Suitcase » by Alice MacGowan
Antonyms for noughts
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