Nothing

Table of 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 words 1.3 See also

English

Pronunciation

• AHD : nŭth'ĭng
• IPA : /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
• SAMPA : /"nVTIN/

Pronoun

nothing

1. Not any thing; no thing.
2. (non-standard) Anything (in double negatives such as I didn't see nothing [= I didn't see anything]).
3. Something trifling, something of no consequence.

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

Quotations

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

Synonyms

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

Basque: ezerez , deusez Bulgarian: нищо Danish: intet Dutch: niets Esperanto: nenio , nenion Finnish: ei mitään French: ne + verb + rien German: nichts Ido: nulo Interlingua: nihil, nil Italian: non + verb + niente

Japanese: 無 (む, mu), なにも (nanimo), なんでもない (nandemonai), べつに (betsuni) Portuguese: nada Spanish: nada Tok Pisin: nogat samting Turkish: hiç

something trifling

Related words

• thing
• anything
• something
• everything

See also

• nobody, no one
• nowhere