Phrase Hound found 15 phrases and 5 compound words that contain nought. The most common are listed below. Open nought in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 15
- aleph-noughtAlternative form of aleph-null: The first of the transfinite cardinal numbers; corresponds to the number of natural numbers.
- come to noughtTo fail completely; to have no successful result.
- all for noughtAll for nothing; in vain, unsuccessfully.
- bring to noughtTo mar; to thwart.
- bringing to noughtpresent participle and gerund of bring to nought
- brings to noughtthird-person singular simple present indicative of bring to nought: To mar; to thwart.
- brought to noughtsimple past and past participle of bring to nought
- came to noughtsimple past of come to nought
- comes to noughtthird-person singular simple present indicative of come to nought: To fail completely; to have no successful result.
- coming to noughtpresent participle and gerund of come to nought
- setting at noughtpresent participle and gerund of set at nought
- more often than noughtAlternative form of more often than not: Usually; more than half the time; more likely to be the case than not to be the case.
- nought withstandingAlternative spelling of noughtwithstanding: Nevertheless, all the same.
- set at noughtTo treat as unimportant or worthless; to despise, disregard, defy, unheed.
- sets at noughtthird-person singular simple present indicative of set at nought: To treat as unimportant or worthless; to despise, disregard, defy, unheed.
Compound words 5
- noughtiesThe decade consisting of the last year of the previous century and the first nine years of the next: from 1900 to 1909, 2000 to 2009, etc.
- noughthBefore the first; zeroth.
- dreadnoughtA battleship, especially of the World War I era, in which most of the firepower is concentrated in large guns that are of the same caliber.
- fearnoughtAlternative form of fearnaught: A fearless person.
- noughtwithstandingObsolete spelling of notwithstanding: Nevertheless, all the same.