Nothing

Pronoun



 * 1) Not any thing; no thing.
 * 2) An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
 * 3)  Anything
 * I didn't see nothing. [= I didn't see anything].
 * I didn't see nothing. [= I didn't see anything].

Synonyms

 * not a thing
 * jack, nada, zip
 * bugger all, jack shit, sod all, fuck all
 * nowt
 * See Thesaurus:nothing
 * See Thesaurus:nothing


 * nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportant

Antonyms

 * anything
 * everything
 * something

Noun

 * 1) Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance
 * What happened to your face? &mdash; It's nothing.
 * 1) A trivial remark (especially in the term sweet nothings:)
 * 2) A nobody (insignificant person)
 * You're nothing to me now!

Adverb

 * 1)  Not at all; in no way.

Related terms

 * anything
 * everything


 * something


 * thing

Derived terms

 * better than nothing
 * for nothing
 * have nothing on (someone)


 * leave nothing in the tank
 * less than nothing
 * next to nothing


 * nothing doing
 * nothingness

Thesaurus
a little thing, a nobody, a nothing, aught, bagatelle, blank, cipher, clean slate, common man, dud, dummy, empty space, figurehead, good-for-nothing, goose egg, hardly anything, hollow man, inanity, inessential, insignificancy, jackstraw, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, marginal matter, matter of indifference, mediocrity, mere nothing, minor matter, nada, naught, nebbish, nichts, nihil, nihility, nil, nix, no great matter, no such thing, no-account, no-good, nobody, nobody one knows, nonentity, nothing at all, nothing in particular, nothing on earth, nothing to signify, nothing whatever, nothingness, nought, nullity, obscurity, ought, paltry affair, peanuts, peu de chose, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, rien du tout, runt, scarcely anything, scrub, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, squirt, squit, tabula rasa, technicality, thing of naught, trifle, unworthy, vacuum, valueless, void, whiffet, whippersnapper, wind, zero, zilch

Alternative forms

 * nuffin, nuffink, nuttin'

Pronoun

 * Afrikaans: niks
 * Albanian: asgjë, kurrgjë
 * Ancient:
 * Arabic: لا شئ
 * Basque: ezerez, deusez
 * Belarusian: нішто, нічога
 * Bengali: কিছু না
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: res
 * Chamicuro:
 * Cherokee: ᎠᏝ ᎪᎱᏍᏗ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 沒什麼, 没什么, ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: nenio, nenion
 * Finnish: ei mitään
 * French: ne + verb + rien
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: कुछ नहीं
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ekkert, neitt
 * Ido: nulo
 * Interlingua: nihil, nil
 * Italian: non + verb + niente


 * Japanese: 何も, 何でもない, 別に
 * Korean: 아무것도...없다 (amugeotto...eopda)
 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: nihil  nihilum
 * Latvian: nekas
 * Lithuanian: niekas
 * Macedonian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:, inget
 * Persian: هیچ, هیچ‌چیز
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ничего
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ништа
 * Roman: ništa
 * Sicilian: nenti
 * Slovak: nič
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, , intet
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai: ไม่มีอะไร
 * Tok Pisin: nogat samting
 * Turkish: hiç, hiç bir şey
 * Ukrainian: ніщо, нічого
 * Urdu: کچھ نہیں
 * Vietnamese: không, không có gì, không cái gì


 * Albanian:
 * German: nichts, gar nichts
 * Greek:
 * Kurdish:
 * Macedonian:


 * Norwegian:
 * Romanian: nimic, fleac, bagatelă
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:, wala lang
 * Turkish: ehemmiyetsiz, önemsiz