NOTHING


Meaning of NOTHING in English

n. 25B6; noun

there's nothing I can do : NOT A THING, not anything, nil, zero; N. English nowt; informal zilch, sweet Fanny Adams, sweet FA, nix, not a dicky bird; Brit. informal damn all, not a sausage; N. Amer. informal zip, nada; archaic naught.

forget it—it's nothing : A TRIFLING MATTER, a trifle; neither here nor there; informal no big deal.

he treats her as nothing : A NOBODY, an unimportant person, a nonentity, a cipher, a non-person; Brit. small beer.

the share value fell to nothing : ZERO, nought, 0; Tennis love; Cricket a duck.

something.

25A0; be/have nothing to do with

it has nothing to do with you : BE UNCONNECTED WITH, be unrelated to; be irrelevant to, be inapplicable to, be inapposite to.

I'll have nothing to do with him : AVOID, have no truck with, have no contact with, steer clear of, give a wide berth to.

25A0; for nothing

she hosted the show for nothing : FREE (OF CHARGE), gratis, without charge, at no cost; informal for free, on the house.

all this trouble for nothing : IN VAIN, to no avail, to no purpose, with no result, needlessly, pointlessly.

25A0; nothing but he's nothing but a nuisance : MERELY, only, just, solely, simply, purely, no more than.

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