Antonyms for naughts
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : nawt |
| Phonetic Transcription : nɔt |
Definition of naughts
Origin :- Old English nawiht "nothing," lit "no whit," from na "no" (from PIE root *ne- "no, not;" see un- (1)) + wiht "thing, creature, being" (see wight). Cognate with Old Saxon neowiht "nothing," Old High German niwiht, Gothic ni waihts. It also developed an adjectival sense in Old English, "good for nothing," which by mid-16c. had focused to "morally bad, wicked." In arithmetic, "the figure zero" from 1640s.
- As in nothing/nothingness : noun emptiness, nonexistence
- As in zero : noun nothing
- As in zilch : noun nothing
- As in nothing : noun emptiness
- As in nullity : noun nothing
- As in diddly : noun nothing
- As in cipher : noun zero; nothingness
- One player chooses to write "naughts" (o) and the other "crosses" (x).
- Extract from : « Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium » by Jessie H. Bancroft
Synonyms for naughts
- annihilation
- anything
- aught
- bagatelle
- blank
- bottom
- cipher
- crumb
- diddly
- diddly squat
- diddly-squat
- doodly-squat
- duck egg
- extinction
- fly speck
- goose egg
- hill of beans
- insignificancy
- iota
- jack
- love
- lowest point
- nada
- nadir
- naught
- nihility
- nil
- nix
- no thing
- nobody
- nonbeing
- nonentity
- nonexistence
- not anything
- nothing
- nothingness
- nought
- nullity
- obliteration
- oblivion
- ought
- ounce
- rock bottom
- scratch
- shred
- shutout
- squat
- trifle
- void
- whit
- wind
- zero
- zilch
- zip
- zippo
- zot
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