How to use naught in a sentence. Come to naught, to come to nothing Be without result or fruition Set at naught, to regard or treat as of no importance He entered a milieu that set his ideals at naught See come to nothing (naught)
All our efforts were for naught All their plans came to naught (= did not achieve anything). Naught and nought are two such words They are actually spelling variants of the same pronoun, which is several centuries old Any time you have an archaic word, you should ask yourself if there is a newer, simpler word that you could use instead. Definition of naught noun in oxford advanced learner's dictionary
Archaic or literary nothing or nothingness → a variant spelling (esp us) of nought 3 → see.click for more definitions. (uk, ireland, australia, new zealand) (now rare or archaic in us, canada) zero Yet another naught on the scoreboard for the home team. Naught (countable and uncountable, plural naughts) (archaic) nothingness
(chiefly us, dated) alternative spelling of nought. When things come to naught, they've come to nothing If you feel bad about ending up with nothing, you can also say it was all for naught!
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