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
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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