From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[Nothing (disambiguation)]
*** Alternative forms
- [nonstandard] [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], from [en], [ang], equivalent to
[en]. Compare [ang], [sv].
*** Pronunciation
- [nŭth'ĭng] , [en]
- [en] [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Pronoun
[wikipedia] [desc= indefinite pronoun]
1. Not any thing ; no thing.
2. * [en]
3. * [entry=Wedding]
4. * [chapter=19]
5. * {{ quote-journal | en | date=2013-07-19 | author=w:Peter Wilby
|volume=189|issue=6|page=30|magazine=w:The Guardian Weekly |title=Finland
spreads word on schools (see
http://www.theguardian.com/education/2013/jul/01/education-michael-gove-finland-gcse)
|passage=Imagine a country where children do NOTHING but play until they start
compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend
comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so
is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
1. An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
**** Synonyms
- [not any thing]
- [standard] not a thing, naught
- [slang] jack , nada , zip , zippo , zilch , squat , nix
- [vulgar slang] bugger all , jack shit , < !--two words? hyphenated?--> sod all [British] , fuck all , dick
- [Northern English dialect] nowt
See Thesaurus:nothing
- [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
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
**** Translations
[not any thing]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq] , [sq]
- Alekano: [gah]
- Amharic: [am] , [am]
- Apache:
- Arabic: [ar]
- Aragonese: [an] , [an]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: [aii]
- Asturian: [ast] , [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Basque: [eu] , [eu]
- Belarusian: [be] , [be]
- Bengali: [bn]
- Bikol Central: [bcl] , [bcl]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Burmese: [my]
- Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca]
- Cebuano: [ceb]
- Central Huishui Hmong: [hmc]
- Chamicuro: [ccc]
- Cherokee: [chr]
- Chichewa: [ny] , [ny]
- Chinese:
- Classical Nahuatl: [nci]
- Corsican: [co]
- Czech: [cs]
- Dalmatian: [dlm]
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl] , [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Friulian: [fur] , [fur]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Gujarati: [gu]
- Haitian Creole: [ht]
- Hausa: [ha]
- Hawaiian: [haw]
- Hebrew: [he] , [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Icelandic: [is] , [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Igbo: [ig]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Ingrian: [izh]
- Interlingua: [ia] , [ia]
- Irish: [ga]
- Istriot: [ist]
- Italian: [it] , [it] [colloquial] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Javanese: [jv]
- Kannada: [kn]
- Kapampangan: [pam] , [pam] , [pam]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Ladino: [lad] , [lad]
- Lakota: [lkt]
- Lao: [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Luxembourgish: [lb]
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Malagasy: [mg]
- Malay: [ms]
- Malayalam: [ml]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi]
- Marathi: [mr]
- Mbyá Guaraní: [gun]
- Mongolian: [mn]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Nepali: [ne]
- North Frisian: [frr] [Sylt]
- Norwegian:
- Odia: [or]
- Old English: [ang]
- Pannonian Rusyn: [rsk]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian: [fa] , [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Punjabi: [pa]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] [Sursilvan] , [rm] [Sutsilvan] , [rm] [Surmiran] , [rm] [Puter] , [rm] [Vallader]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Rwanda-Rundi: [rw]
- Samoan: [sm]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shona: [sn]
- Sicilian: [scn]
- Sindhi: [sd]
- Sinhalese: [si]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Somali: [so]
- Sotho: [st]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [Andes] , [es] [Andes] , [es] , [es] [_fláwers_]
- Sundanese: [su]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg]
- Tamil: [ta] , [ta] , [ta]
- Telugu: [te] , [te]
- Thai: [th]
- Tok Pisin: [tpi]
- Tongan: [to]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] ( [vi] )
- Volapük: [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy] , [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Xhosa: [xh]
- Yiddish: [yi]
- Yoruba: [yo]
- Zulu: [zu]
[trans-bottom]
[something trifling]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de] , [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Kapampangan: [pam] , [pam]
- Kurdish:
- Macedonian: [mk]
- Norwegian: [no]
- Polish: [pl]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl] , [tl]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] ( [vi] ), [vi] ( [vi] )
[trans-bottom]
*** Noun
[~]
1. Something trifling , or of no consequence or importance.
2. * [passage=Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new NOTHINGS , but pursuances of old truths.]
3. * [en]
4. A trivial remark [especially in the term [en]] .
5. A nobody [insignificant person] .
**** Translations
[something trifling, or of no consequence or importance]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Polish: [pl]
[trans-bottom]
[a nobody, a person of no consequence]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi]
- Maori: [mi]
- Polish: [pl]
- Swedish: [sv]
[trans-bottom]
*** Adverb
[-]
1. [en] Not at all; in no way.
2. * {{ quote-journal | en | year=1855 | journal=The Ladies' Repository | volume=15 | page=544
|passage=The answer was an impatient one—but, NOTHING daunted, he continued.}}
1. * [en]
*** Adjective
[-]
1. Completely unimportant .
2. Lacking effort or commitment .
*** Interjection
[en-interj]
1. Never mind; it's not important; forget what I said.
*** Derived terms
{{col3|en|title=Terms derived from the pronoun, noun, or adverb _nothing_
|benothing|have nothing on someone|and nothing of value was lost|nothing about
us without us|stick at nothing|want for nothing| nothing is certain but death
and taxes|there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution|you will
own nothing and be happy |better than nothing|nothing if not
|do-nothing|nothing to see here |do nothing|nothing less than|nothing to sniff
at |for nothing|nothing more than |if nothing else |it's nothing |have nothing
on (someone) |here goes nothing |leave nothing in the tank |less than nothing
|next to nothing |nothing at all |nothingburger,nothing-burger,nothing burger
|nothing but |nothing doing |nothing for it |nothingness|have nothing to
lose|nothing gold can stay |nothing succeeds like success |nothing to choose
between |there's nothing to it |thing of nothing |think nothing of |think
nothing of it |you don't get something for nothing|ain't nothing but a
thang|all-or-nothing|apropos of nothing|as if nothing had happened|come to
nothing|dance on nothing|dance upon nothing|double or nothing|get-nothing|go
for nothing|good for nothing|good-for-nothing|hiding to nothing|in nothing
flat|know-nothing|leave nothing to the imagination|make nothing of|much ado
about nothing|neck or nothing|not for nothing|nothing ball|nothing but
net|nothing else for it|nothing is said that has not been said before|nothing
like|nothing new under the sun|nothing personal|nothing sandwich|nothing
special|nothing to it|nothing to see|nothing to sneeze at|nothing to write
home about|nothing-buttery|nothing-up-my-sleeve number|say
nothing|shared-nothing|shot to nothing|something and nothing|something is
better than nothing|stop at nothing|sweet nothing|thanks for nothing|there is
nothing new under the sun|to say nothing of|you can't get something for
nothing }}
*** Related terms
{{col|en|title=Terms etymologically related to the pronoun, noun, or adverb
_nothing_ |anything |everything |something |thing }}
*** Coordinate terms
- [en] , [en]
- [en]
*** References
- [R:OED2]
[en]