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noun

Nothing n.

Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); opposed to anything and something. "Yet had his aspect nothing of severe."

Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.

A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle. "Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought." "'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end."

(Arith.) A cipher; naught.

Nothing but, only; no more than.

To make nothing of.

(a)

To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. "We are industrious to preserve our bodies from slavery, but we make nothing of suffering our souls to be slaves to our lusts."

(b)

Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said.

adverb

Nothing adv. In no degree; not at all; in no wise. "Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed." "The influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed."

Nothing off (Naut.), an order to the steersman to keep the vessel close to the wind.

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Etymology of 'Nothing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Nothing" Quotes from Famous Books

... politest and most old- fashioned bow, "whatever sympathy I may have felt for you is being rapidly alienated by your manner. I told you that my daughter must speak for herself. She has spoken very clearly indeed, and, in short, I have absolutely nothing to add ...

— Colonel Quaritch, V.C. - A Tale of Country Life • H. Rider Haggard

... of a Paganini. They are potentially endless reproductions of one phase of an ill-regulated mind—the picture of the same quasi-melancholy vengeful man, who knows no friend but a dog, and reads on the tombs of the great only "the glory and the nothing of a name," the exile who cannot flee from himself, "the wandering outlaw of his own dark mind," who has not loved the world nor ...

— Byron • John Nichol

... seen strolling up the hill. Instantly his substitute, a tall, nervous fellow, nicknamed Spindle, proposed to resign in Ben's favor, and the motion was carried by acclamation,—the Blues hoping everything, and the Reds fearing nothing, from ...

— Donald and Dorothy • Mary Mapes Dodge

... can talk pretty," she declared, her lips parted in an admiring smile. "It makes me kind o' wonder how you fellers learn it." Then she added demurely, "But I ain't pretty, nor nothing like you fellers try to make out. I'm jest an ord'nary sort ...

— The Twins of Suffering Creek • Ridgwell Cullum

... and he would push on to St. Arnoult, and along the road to Chateaurenault and Tours. This was, indeed, the most likely supposition. The Count would scarce expect to find us harboured in any house in the neighbourhood, and he knew nothing of Hugues's attachment to Mathilde. Still I thought it well that the Countess should travel on as far as possible that night, and I asked her if she felt able to do so after stopping at Hugues's ...

— The Bright Face of Danger • Robert Neilson Stephens

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