nothing

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Pronoun 1.2.1 Quotations 1.2.2 Synonyms 1.2.3 Antonyms 1.2.4 Translations 1.2.5 Related terms 1.2.6 Derived terms 1.3 See also

[edit] English

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[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: nŭth'ĭng, IPA: /ˈnʌθɪŋ/, SAMPA: /"nVTIN/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -ʌθɪŋ

• Hyphenation: noth‧ing

[edit] Pronoun

Wikipedia nothing

1. Not any thing; no thing.
2. An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.
3. (slang, in double negatives) Anything

   I didn't see nothing. [= I didn't see anything]).

4. Something trifling, or of no consequence.

   What happened to your face? — It's nothing.

[edit] Quotations

• 1839: the players see little or nothing of their cards at first starting - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby.

[edit] Synonyms

• (not any thing):
  • (standard): not a thing
  • (slang): jack, nada, zip
  • (vulgar slang): bugger all, jack shit, sod all (British), fuck all
  • (Northern English dialect): nowt

See WikiSaurus:nothing

• (something trifling): nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportant

[edit] Antonyms

• anything
• everything
• something

[edit] Translations

[edit] Related terms

• thing
• anything
• something
• everything

[edit] Derived terms

• nothingness
• better than nothing
• for nothing
• next to nothing
• less than nothing
• have nothing on (someone)

[edit] See also

• nobody, no one
• nowhere