Word Meanings - NAUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

not + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, 1. Nothing. Doth Job fear God for naught Job i. 9. 2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher. To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise;

Additional info about word: NAUGHT

not + wiht thing, whit; hence, not ever a whit. See No, adv. Whit, 1. Nothing. Doth Job fear God for naught Job i. 9. 2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher. To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. "Ye have set at naught all my counsel." Prov. i. 25.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NAUGHT)

• Zero
• Naught
• cipher
• nothing

Related words: (words related to NAUGHT)

• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• CIPHER
  A character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. 2. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving. 3. A character
• NAUGHTILY
  In a naughty manner; wickedly; perversely. Shak.
• NAUGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being naughty; perverseness; badness; wickedness. I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thine heart. 1 Sam. xvii.
• NAUGHT
  1. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. Prov. xx. 14. Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else. Shak. Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker. 2. Hence, vile;
• NOTHINGARIAN
  One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
• NAUGHTLY
  Naughtily; wrongly. because my parents naughtly brought me up. Mir. for Mag.
• NOTHER
  Neither; nor. Chaucer.
• NOTHING
  A cipher; naught. Nothing but, only; no more than. Chaucer. -- To make nothing of. To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. "We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls
• NAUGHTY
  1. Having little or nothing. that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. Piers Plowman. 2. Worthless; bad; good for nothing. The other basket had very naughty figs. Jer. xxiv. 2. 3. hence, corrupt; wicked. So shines a good deed
• CIPHERER
  One who ciphers.
• NOTHINGISM
  Nihility; nothingness.
• CIPHERHOOD
  Nothingness. Goodwin.
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• NEGINOTH
  Stringed instruments. Dr. W. Smith. To the chief musician on Neginoth. Ps. iv. 9heading).
• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• MONOTHEIST
  One who believes that there is but one God.
• DO-NOTHINGISM; DO-NOTHINGNESS
  Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. Carlyle. Miss Austen.
• INDECIPHERABLE
  Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.
• MONOTHECAL
  Having a single loculament.
• DEINOTHERIUM
  See DINOTHERIUM
• GONOTHECA
  A capsule developed on certain hydroids , inclosing the blastostyle upon which the medusoid buds or gonophores are developed; -- called also gonangium, and teleophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.
• DO-NAUGHT
  A lazy, good-for-nothing fellow.
• MONOTHEISM
  The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.