Nothing (A song)
WordNet

adverb


(1)   In no way; to no degree
"He looks nothing like his father"

noun


(2)   A nonexistent thing
(3)   A quantity of no importance
"It looked like nothing I had ever seen before"
"Reduced to nil all the work we had done"
"We racked up a pathetic goose egg"
"It was all for naught"
"I didn't hear zilch about it"
WiktionaryText

English


Pronoun


  1. Not any thing; no thing.
  2. An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
  3. Anything
    I didn't see nothing. [= I didn't see anything]).
  4. Something trifling, or of no consequence.
    What happened to your face?It's nothing.

Quotations

  • 1839: the players see little or nothing of their cards at first starting - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby.

Synonyms

  • (not any thing):
    • (standard): not a thing
    • (slang): jack, nada, zip
    • (vulgar slang): bugger all, jack shit, sod all (British), fuck all
    • (Northern English dialect): nowt
See WikiSaurus: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
 
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