How to use naught in a sentence. Both naught and nought mean nothing, and in american english they are more or less interchangeable (though naught is the more common spelling) Naught and nought are two such words
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They are actually spelling variants of the same pronoun, which is several centuries old
Any time you have an archaic word, you should ask yourself if there is a newer, simpler word that you could use instead.
All our efforts were for naught All their plans came to naught (= did not achieve anything). Come to naught, to come to nothing Be without result or fruition
Set at naught, to regard or treat as of no importance He entered a milieu that set his ideals at naught See come to nothing (naught) Definition of naught noun in oxford advanced learner's dictionary
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Archaic or literary nothing or nothingness Naught (countable and uncountable, plural naughts) (archaic) nothingness (chiefly us, dated) alternative spelling of nought. → a variant spelling (esp us) of nought 3
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