aught n : 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, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip]

English

Etymology

From aught, ought < eht.

Pronunciation

• , /ɔːt/

• Rhymes with: -ɔːt

Alternative spellings

• ought

Pronoun

1. anything
   • 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 29.

     to other objects, which for aught we know, may be only in appearance similar ;

2. zero

See also

• naught
• owt

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