naught
nawt
- n a quantity of no importance
it was all for naught - n complete failure
all my efforts led to naught
- Hasan Sas lived up to his reputation as the indisciplined bad boy of Turkish football, and all the great work done by Basturk, Emre and Alpay came to naught.
- Disarmed, she had naught to fear from democracies disarmed also.
- Many times, however, the ruse may all be for naught: Saint-Leger notes notes that 30% to 40% of both original and reconstructed hymens fail to produce the virginity-confirming .