Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to nought
Participle: noughted
Gerund: noughting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | nought |
| you | nought |
| he;she;it | noughts |
| we | nought |
| you | nought |
| they | nought |
Perfect
| I | have noughted |
| you | have noughted |
| he;she;it | has noughted |
| we | have noughted |
| you | have noughted |
| they | have noughted |
Past
| I | noughted |
| you | noughted |
| he;she;it | noughted |
| we | noughted |
| you | noughted |
| they | noughted |
Pluperfect
| I | had noughted |
| you | had noughted |
| he;she;it | had noughted |
| we | had noughted |
| you | had noughted |
| they | had noughted |
Future
| I | will nought |
| you | will nought |
| he;she;it | will nought |
| we | will nought |
| you | will nought |
| they | will nought |
Future Perfect
| I | will have noughted |
| you | will have noughted |
| he;she;it | will have noughted |
| we | will have noughted |
| you | will have noughted |
| they | will have noughted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | nought |
| you | nought |
| he;she;it | nought |
| we | nought |
| you | nought |
| they | nought |
Perfect
| I | have noughted |
| you | have noughted |
| he;she;it | have noughted |
| we | have noughted |
| you | have noughted |
| they | have noughted |
Imperfect
| I | noughted |
| you | noughted |
| he;she;it | noughted |
| we | noughted |
| you | noughted |
| they | noughted |
Pluperfect
| I | had noughted |
| you | had noughted |
| he;she;it | had noughted |
| we | had noughted |
| you | had noughted |
| they | had noughted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would nought |
| you | would nought |
| he;she;it | would nought |
| we | would nought |
| you | would nought |
| they | would nought |
Perfect
| I | would have noughted |
| you | would have noughted |
| he;she;it | would have noughted |
| we | would have noughted |
| you | would have noughted |
| they | would have noughted |
Imperative
| you | nought |
| we | Let's nought |
| you | nought |
Verbs conjugated like 'nought'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'nought'
ought,
aught,
cough,
dough,
hough,
night,
rough,
saught,
sough,
tough,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English nought, noght, noȝt, from Old English nōwiht, nāwiht, which in turn comes from ne-ā-wiht, which was a phrase used as an emphatic "no", meaning "not anything". Equivalent to ne + ought or ne + a + wight. Doublet of naught and not.
Sample Sentences
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In this naked word sin, our Lord brought to my mind, generally, all that is not good, and the shameful despite and the utter noughting that He bare for us in this life, and His dying; and all the pains and passions of all His creatures, ghostly and bodily; (for we be all partly noughted, and we shall be noughted following our Master, Jesus, till we be full purged, that is to say, till we be fully noughted of our deadly flesh and of all our inward affections which are not very good;) [1393, Julian of Norwich, translated by Grace Warrack, Revelations of Divine Love, published 1901:]
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The nought which is you has devoured the style and been sustained for a while as a non-you until the style is emptied out by the noughting self. [1983, Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, page 25:]
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Your usefulness is zero, your worth zero, and as zero you deserve to be treated as nothing, and in the extreme, noughted. [2001, William Desmond, Ethics and the Between, page 507:]
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What is the use of noughting yourself? Who is noughting who? What is the use of searching for yourself? Who is searching for who? There are not two of you ! You cannot find yourself, or the absence of yourself. [2003, Wu Wei Wei, The Tenth Man: The Great Joke (which Made Lazarus Laugh), →ISBN, page 81:]