(n.) Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.
(n.) Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.
(n.) A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.
(n.) A cipher; naught.
(adv.) In no degree; not at all; in no wise.
Example Sentences:
(1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
(2) Northern Ireland will not be dragged back by terrorists who have nothing but misery to offer."
(3) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(4) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(5) Almost nothing is known about nature and timing of the embryonic cues which induce or initiate spicule formation by these cells.
(6) If Queensland goes ahead and develops and dredges Abbot Point, it may all be for nothing.
(7) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
(8) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(9) But there was a clear penalty on Diego Costa – it is a waste of time and money to have officials by the side of the goal because normally they do nothing – and David Luiz’s elbow I didn’t see, I confess.
(10) The three-year-old comes into the kitchen for a drink, and as Steve opens the fridge, I can see it contains nothing apart from a half-full bottle of milk.
(11) It’s the same story over and over.” Children’s author Philip Ardagh , who told the room he once worked as an “unprofessional librarian” in Lewisham, said: “Closing down a library is like filing off the end of a swordfish’s nose: pointless.” 'Speak up before there's nothing left': authors rally for National Libraries Day Read more “Today proves that support for public libraries comes from all walks of life and it’s not rocket science to work out why.
(12) She is not: "Religion has nothing to do with spirituality."
(13) The prime minister said: “I am taking absolutely nothing for granted.
(14) We always feel like it's Hobbitshire – a green valley where nothing happens."
(15) She says he wants his actors to be in a "second state", instinctive, holding nothing back.
(16) As for gay men, there is absolutely nothing that suggests they are any less war-happy than heterosexuals.
(17) Like Morton, Sevigny is an actor who holds nothing back from the camera.
(18) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(19) I’d argue, furthermore, that these preoccupations are preventing people from seeking support, as if nothing could be more the opposite of these things than admission of the need for help.
(20) Lion cubs fathered by Cecil, the celebrated lion shot dead in Zimbabwe , may already have been killed by a rival male lion and even if they were still alive there was nothing conservationists could do to protect them, a conservation charity has warned.