nothing

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Pronunciation

• enPR: nŭth'ĭng, IPA: /ˈnʌθɪŋ/

Pronoun

1. Not any thing; no thing.
2. An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.

Synonyms

• (not any thing)
  • (standard) not a thing, naught
  • (slang) jack, nada, zip, zippo, zilch, squat, nix
  • (vulgar slang) bugger all, jack shit, sod all (British), fuck all, dick
  • (Northern English dialect) nowt

See Thesaurus:nothing

• (something trifling) nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportant

Antonyms

• anything
• everything
• something

Translations

• French: rien, ne + verb + rien
• German: nichts
• Italian: niente, non + verb + niente (colloquial), nulla
• Portuguese: nada
• Russian: ничто́
• Spanish: nada

Translations

• German: nichts, gar nichts

Noun

nothing

1. Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.

   - What happened to your face?
   - It's nothing.

   • Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.

2. A trivial remark (especially in the term sweet nothings).
3. A nobody (insignificant person).

   You're nothing to me now!

Adverb

nothing (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Not at all; in no way.

Related terms

• anything
• everything
• something
• thing

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