Local English word record

nil

noun · 1 sense

a quantity of no importance

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Examples

  • it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
  • reduced to nil all the work we had done
  • we racked up a pathetic goose egg
  • it was all for naught
  • I didn't hear zilch about it

Word relationships

Synonyms

nothing, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip

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Princeton WordNet 3.0