aught — English Dictionary

Pronoun

1. Anything whatsoever, any part.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • dialectal

   Examples

   for aught I know/care

   […] wouldst thou aught with me?

   More examples (7)

   But go, my Son, and ſee if aught be vvanting / Among thy Father's Friends; […]

   Then Proclamation was made, that they that had ought to ſay for their Lord the King againſt the Priſoner at the Bar, ſhould forthwith appear and give in their evidence.

   […]to other objects, which for aught we know, may be only in appearance similar.

   It was a foolish thing to do; but when was happy youth aught but foolish?

   But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred[…]

   His life among these fierce apes had been happy; for his recollection held no other life, nor did he know that there existed within the universe aught else than his little forest and the wild jungle animals with which he was familiar.

   There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.

Adverb

1. At all, in any degree, in any respect.

   Usage

   • Archaic
   • not-comparable

   Examples

   […] and if your love Can labour aught in sad invention, Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb, And sing it to her bones [...]

Noun

1. Whit, the smallest part, iota.

   Usage

   • Archaic

   Synonyms

   bitjot

Noun

1. Zero.

   Usage

   • proscribed
   • sometimes

2. The digit zero.

Noun

1. Estimation.

   Usage

   • Regional
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   in my aught

2. Of importance or consequence (in the phrase "of aught").

   Usage

   • Regional
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   an event of aught

3. Esteem, respect.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Rare
   • Regional
   • Uncountable

   Examples

   a man of aught

   Show some aught to your elders, boy.

Noun

1. a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

   Synonyms

   nothingnilnixnadanullciphercyphergoose eggnaughtzerozilchzipzippo

   Broader terms

   relative quantity

   Examples

   it looked like nothing I had ever seen before

   reduced to nil all the work we had done

   More examples (3)

   we racked up a pathetic goose egg

   it was all for naught

   I didn't hear zilch about it