Synonyms and related words :
a little thing, absence, aimlessness, cipher, dead letter, deprivation, dud, dummy, emptiness, empty sound, futility, hardly anything, hollow man, inanity, inessential, insignificance, insignificancy, jackstraw, lay figure, man of straw, marginal matter, matter of indifference, meaninglessness, mere noise, mere nothing, minor matter, nada, naught, nebbish, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, no great matter, nobody, noise, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsensicality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothing, nothing in particular, nothing to signify, nothingness, paltry affair, peu de chose, phatic communion, puppet, purposelessness, pushover, rien du tout, scarcely anything, senselessness, technicality, thing of naught, trifle, unactuality, unmeaningness, unreality, unsignificancy, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero, zilch