nothing
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[ English
| Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg. | ||||||
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| part | off | took | #162: nothing | God | three | put |
[ Pronunciation
- enPR: nŭth'ĭng
- IPA: /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
- SAMPA: /"nVTIN/
- Audio (US)help, file
- Rhymes: -ʌθɪŋ
- Hyphenation: noth·ing
[ Pronoun
nothing
- Not any thing; no thing.
- an absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
- (slang) Anything (in double negatives such as I didn't see nothing [= I didn't see anything]).
- Something trifling, something of no consequence.
- What happened to your face? — It's nothing.
[ Quotations
- 1839: thee players see little or nothing of their cards at first starting - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby.
[ Synonyms
- (not any thing):
- (something trifling): nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportant
[ Antonyms
[ Translations
not any thing
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something trifling
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