· 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"
Synonym(s): nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose_egg, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
Hypernym(s): relative_quantity
· complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
Hypernym(s): failure