(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.
Nowhere
Definition:
(adv.) Not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.
Example Sentences:
(1) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(2) Matteo Renzi, the Italian leader who has argued it would be a disaster if Britain left the EU, suggested defensiveness about freedom of movement led to nowhere apart from opening the door to “right-wing xenophobia and nationalism” in Europe .
(3) And a free-kick in a dangerous area... 2.48am GMT 38 mins When Houston do get the ball they are all so deep that there's nowhere for it to go, and so possession immediately falls back to SKC.
(4) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(5) The nightmare for western intelligence services is that our societies are under permanent threat from what may prove "one-time" terrorist cells that emerge from nowhere, without "form" on any government database, to launch an attack.
(6) In that context, the amount paid for late-career work like Women of Algiers is probably a good investment; while it has nowhere near the raw energy of early masterpieces such as Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) or the significance of mid-career icons such as Guernica (1937), in an international market where the artist’s name casts a spell on potential buyers, it’s a respectable piece that can be immediately identified as a “Picasso”.
(7) "Robin van Persie scored more than 30 goals [the season before last] and they were nowhere near the title.
(8) It's ridiculous, because there will soon be a massive public outcry about how there's nowhere for kids to go.
(9) The device has further been designed to alter the filtration velocity along the membrane so that the critical filtration velocity is nowhere exceeded, i.e., concentration polarization effects are prevented.
(10) I then asked Camhs to help me with social care as I was getting nowhere with them.
(11) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Gunfire breaks out in Istanbul during attempted military coup For more than two hours, Erdoğan was nowhere to be seen and could only make an eventual statement to broadcasters via FaceTime.
(12) "And, second, over the last 20 years in European politics, one of the lessons that has been learned has been that, when it comes to the radical right, the strategy of condemnation and of ridicule has got us nowhere."
(13) Conservationists fear that it will have nowhere to go as climate change causes temperatures to rise.
(14) But without a dose of rethinking, the Republicans are heading nowhere.
(15) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
(16) This is a lot of money, but nowhere near as much as I thought – and the London Women’s Clinic offers egg freezing free to women who also donate to an egg bank.
(17) At least that’s what one sewing blogger’s followers decided after an internet troll came out of nowhere to tell her she should “eat less cake”.
(18) She appeared out of nowhere, said a few words that no one could hear and then slowly made her way through the photographers to a cab and vanished: a great, big, fruitily dressed fairy godmother who, when you come to think of it, bears not the slightest resemblance to any of the other seven billion people on the planet.
(19) As Harvey said with such flair, "nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten path".
(20) Airlines operate in a legislative vacuum, a transnational, extralegal limbo, accountable nowhere and to no one.