nothing

English

Alternative forms

• (nonstandard) nuffin, nuffink, nuttin', nuthin, nuthin', nothin'

Pronunciation

• enPR: nŭth'ĭng, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
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  Audio (US):

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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ʌθɪŋ
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: noth‧ing

Pronoun

nothing

1. Not any thing; no thing.
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2. An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.

Synonyms

• (not any thing):
  • (standard): not a thing, naught
  • (slang): jack, nada, zip, zippo, squat
  • (vulgar slang): bugger all, jack shit, sod all (British), fuck all, dick
  • (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

Antonyms

• anything
• everything
• something

Translations

not any thing

• Afrikaans: niks
• Albanian: asgjë (sq), kurrgjë
• Ancient Greek: οὐδέν n (oudén)
• Arabic: لَا شَيْء (lā šayʔ)
• Asturian: nada, ñada
• Basque: ezerez, deusez
• Belarusian: нішто (ništó), нічога (ničóha)
• Bengali: কিছু না (kichu na)
• Bulgarian: нищо (bg) (níšto)
• Catalan: res (ca)
• Chamicuro: kala
• Cherokee: ᎠᏝ ᎪᎱᏍᏗ (átla gohusdi)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沒什麼 / 没什么 (méishénme), 没什么 (zh) (méi shénme), 沒事 / 没事 (méishì), 没事 (zh) (méishì)

• Classical Nahuatl: ahtle
• Czech: nic (cs)
• Dalmatian: nolja
• Danish: intet (da), ingenting (da)
• Dutch: niets (nl), niks (nl)
• Esperanto: nenio
• Finnish: ei mitään
• French: rien (fr), ne + verb + rien
• Galician: nada, ren (gl), res
• Georgian: არაფერი (araperi)
• German: nichts (de)

  Alemannic German: nüüt

• Greek: τίποτε (el) n (típote), τίποτα (el) n (típota)
• Hebrew: see usage notes at שׁוּם דָּבָר (he) and כְּלוּם (he)
• Hindi: कुछ नहीं (kuch nahī̃)
• Hungarian: semmi (hu)
• Icelandic: ekkert (is) n, neitt
• Ido: nulo (io)
• Interlingua: nihil, nil
• Istriot: gninte
• Italian: niente (it), non + verb + niente, nulla (it)
• Japanese: 何も (なにも, nani-mo), 何でもない (なんでもない, nandemonai), 別に (べつに, betsu ni)
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• Korean: 아무것도...없다 (amugeotto...eopda)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: هیچ (hîç)

• Latin: ^{(please verify)} nihil (la) n, ^{(please verify)} nihilum n
• Latvian: nekas
• Lithuanian: niekas
• Luxembourgish: näischt
• Macedonian: ништо n (níšto)
• Navajo: ádin
• Norwegian: ingenting (no), inget
• Novial:
• Persian: هیچ (fa) (hič), هیچ‌چیز (hič-čiz)
• Polish: nic (pl)
• Portuguese: nada (pt)
• Romanian: nimic (ro)
• Russian: ничто́ (ru) (ništó), ничего́ (ru) (ničevó) (pronounced: ničevó)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ни̏шта

  Roman: nȉšta

• Sicilian: nenti (scn)
• Slovak: nič
• Slovene: nìč
• Spanish: nada (es)
• Swedish: inget (sv), ingenting (sv), intet (sv)
• Tagalog: wala (tl)
• Thai: ไม่มีอะไร (mâi mee àrai)
• Tok Pisin: nogat samting
• Turkish: hiç (tr), hiç bir şey
• Ukrainian: ніщо (niščó), нічого (ničóho)
• Urdu: کچھ نہیں (kuch nahī̃)
• Venetian: gnent (vec), gnente
• Vietnamese: không (vi), không có gì, không cái gì

something trifling

• Albanian: bosh (sq)
• German: nichts (de), gar nichts
• Greek: τίποτα (el) n (típota)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: هیچ (hîç)

• Macedonian: ништо n (níšto)
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• Norwegian: ingenting (no)
• Romanian: nimic (ro) n, fleac (ro) n, bagatelă (ro) f
• Swedish: inget (sv), ingenting (sv)
• Tagalog: wala (tl), wala lang
• Turkish: ehemmiyetsiz (tr), önemsiz (tr)

Noun

nothing (plural nothings)

1. Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.

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

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     Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.

2. A trivial remark (especially in the term (deprecated template usage) sweet nothings).
3. A nobody (insignificant person).

   You're nothing to me now!

Adverb

nothing (not comparable)

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) Not at all; in no way.

Related terms

• anything
• everything

• something

• thing

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Derived terms

• benothing
• better than nothing
• for nothing
• if nothing else
• it's nothing
• have nothing on (someone)

• leave nothing in the tank
• less than nothing
• next to nothing
• nothing at all
• nothing but
• nothing doing

• nothing for it
• nothingness
• nothing succeeds like success
• there's nothing to it
• think nothing of it

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See also

• nobody, no one
• nowhere

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “nothing”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

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