naught /ˈnɔt, ˈnɑt/
  無,零(a.)無價值的,無用的
  Naught n.
  1. Nothing. [Written also nought.]
     Doth Job fear God for naught?   --Job i. 9.
  2. The arithmetical character 0; a cipher. See Cipher.
  To set at naught, to treat as of no account; to disregard; to despise; to defy; to treat with ignominy. “Ye have set at naught all my counsel.”
  Naught, adv. In no degree; not at all.
     To wealth or sovereign power he naught applied.   --Fairfax.
  Naught, a.
  1. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.
     It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer.   --Prov. xx. 14.
  Go, get you to your house; begone, away!
  All will be naught else.   --Shak.
     Things naught and things indifferent.   --Hooker.
  2. Hence, vile; base; naughty. [Obs.]
     No man can be stark naught at once.   --Fuller.
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  naught
       n 1: a quantity of no importance; "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" [syn: nothing,
             nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
             goose egg, zero, zilch, zip]
       2: complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"