Nothing

n.	1.	Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); - opposed to anything and something. Yet had his aspect nothing of severe. - Dryden.
	2.	Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.
	3.	A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle. Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought. - Is. xli. 24. 'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end. - Dryden.
	4.	(Arith.) A cipher; naught. Nothing but only; no more than. To make nothing of a - To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important. - Chaucer. b - Not to understand; as, I could make nothing of what he said. - Ray.
adv.	1.	In no degree; not at all; in no wise. Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed. - Milton. The influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed. - Burke. Nothing off (Naut.) an order to the steersman to keep the vessel close to the wind.

Noun	1.	nothing - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" Synonyms: goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, null, zero, zilch, zip, aught, cypher, cipher
	2.	nothing - a nonexistent thing Synonyms: nonentity
Adv.	1.	nothing - in no way; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his father"

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