How to use naught in a sentence. There are 26 meanings listed in oed's entry for the word naught, 14 of which are labelled obsolete Come to naught, to come to nothing
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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) All our efforts were for naught All their plans came to naught (= did not achieve anything).
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. Definition of naught noun in oxford advanced learner's dictionary
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Archaic or literary nothing or nothingness (uk, ireland, australia, new zealand) (now rare or archaic in us, canada) zero Yet another naught on the scoreboard for the home team. → a variant spelling (esp us) of nought 3
→ see.click for more definitions. Naught (countable and uncountable, plural naughts) (archaic) nothingness (chiefly us, dated) alternative spelling of nought.
