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naught

/nawt/US // nɔt //UK // (nɔːt) //

无,虚无缥缈,虚无缥缈的,无用的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : nothing.
    • : a cipher; zero.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : lost; ruined.
    • : Archaic. worthless; useless.
    • : Obsolete. morally bad; wicked.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : Obsolete. not.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • If the revelation fails to move you then all that came before it was for naught.

  • It’s all or nothing for the House, and it’s not entirely clear the Senate can get Phase Two to the south side of the Capitol, meaning the whole $4 trillion spending dream could be for naught.

  • On set againAll the original programming activity would be for naught without the means of production.

  • I try to devise backup plans based on unknowable factors—whether young children will be vaccinated by then, whether it will rain that weekend, forcing us to move certain festivities inside—and I wonder if it will all be for naught.

  • Russell Westbrook, who did not speak with reporters after the game, logged his fourth triple-double of the season for naught, scoring 22 points with 11 assists and 10 rebounds.

  • According to Farmaner, the reforms of 2011 have largely come to naught.

  • But moments later there was a twist, and with it the fear that the prayers had been for naught.

  • Venus' Epic Fight, for Naught Long gone are the days when Venus Williams dominated tennis, but she sure still gives it her all.

  • Hoping that his hi-tech marketing wiles will not go for naught, Bennett will now try to torpedo the prize ceremony.

  • In the end, all the praise and support from the international community was for naught.

  • At last he had found permanence in a life where heretofore had been naught but transience.

  • There are poets and writers who see naught in war but carrion, filth, savagery and horror.

  • Letty has just had another baby, and her dairy-maid got married and left at this busy time, and I'm sick and good for naught.

  • From that day my affairs have gone from bad to worse, and I have naught in the wide world but the clothes I stand up in.

  • Though they prayed thus, yet once again they found that the "prayer of the wicked availeth naught."