Aught

Definition: Aught

Aught

Noun

1. 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".

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Date "aught" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Aught

Chance 2

Adverb: by chance, accidentally, by accident; casually; perchance; (possibly); for aught one knows; as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it; as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may happen; as the case may be.

Ignorance

Adverb: ignorantly; Adjective: unawares; for anything, for aught one knows; not that one knows.

Indifference

Adverb: for aught one cares.

Part

Noun: part, portion; dose; item, particular; aught, any; division, ward; subdivision, section; chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse; article, passage; sector, segment; fraction, fragment; cantle, frustum; detachment, parcel.

Quantity

Adjective: quantitative, some, any, aught, more or less, a few.

Supposition

Adverb: if, if so be; an; on the supposition; Noun:ex hypothesi; in the case, in the event of; quasi, as if, provided; perhaps; (by possibility); for aught one knows.

Unimportance

Adverb: slightly; Adjective: rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably. for aught one cares.

Crosswords: Aught

What do you think I aught to do here, Frank? (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire)

I don't get nothin' done of what i aught to do (We Fit Together; performing artist: O-Town)

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Books

• Aught from Naught: A.M. Klein's the Second Scroll (E L S Monograph Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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He that can reconcile blows and reverence, may, for aught I know, desire for his pains, a civil, respectful cudgeling where-ever he can meet with it. (Second Treatise of Government)

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It is well, but do they do aught else?

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Expressions using "aught": ad for aught one cares ♦ for aught i care ♦ for aught i care! ♦ for aught i know ♦ for aught one cares ♦ for aught one knows. Additional references.

Albanian

diçka (any, anything, either, somebody, someone, something, somewhat). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صفر لا شىء, ‏البتة (nohow, nothing, noway, under no circumstance), ‏بأية حال (anyhow, anyway). (various references)

Bulgarian 

каквото и да е (soever), в каквото и да е отношение, нещо (affair, anything, do, matter, something, summat, thing). (various references)

Czech

cokoliv (anything, whatever, whatsoever, whichever). (various references)

French

pour autant que. (various references)

German

etwas (a bit, a little, any, anything, poco, rather, slightly, some, something, somewhat, to some extent). (various references)

Greek 

ότι (that), τίποτε (naught, nil, nothing, nought). (various references)

Hebrew 

מש�"ו (anything, slightly, something, somewhat). (various references)

Hungarian

valahogy (anyway, in a way, kind of, somehow, sort of). (various references)

Italian

qualche cosa (something). (various references)

Manx

red ennagh (something). (various references)

Pig Latin

aughtay

Portuguese

qualquer coisa (anything, something), partícula (blob, droplet, fragment, item, particle, speck, whit), em qualquer grau, de qualquer modo (any, at all), cifra (cipher, code, cypher, digit, figure, naught, number, numeral, pressmark). (various references)

Romanian

orice (all, any, anything, whatever), ceva (a bit, a little, anything, little, some, something, somewhat), ceea ce (what), într-o privinţã oarecare, într-o oarecare mãsurã (in some wise, to a large extent, to some extent). (various references)

Russian 

что-нибудь (anything, something), кое-что (little). (various references)

Scottish

sad (dust shaken from anything by beating, or brush off dust, smart blow, thump). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sve (all, everything). (various references)

Spanish

alguna cosa, algo (anything, at all, rather, smth., some, something, somewhat, sth., trifle), nada (any, naught, nil, Nix, none, not any the, not at all, nothing, nothingness, nought, nowt, peanuts), de cualquier forma. (various references)

Swedish

vad som helst (anything, whatever). (various references)

Thai

สิ่งใ�"ๆ. (various references)

Turkish

zerre kadar (least of all, ought), hiç (any, at all, by any means, ever, far from, least of all, nary, naught, ne'er, never, nil, Nix, no, no whit, none, not a dreg, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not exactly, not in the least, nothing, nought, null, nullity, ought, whatever, whatsoever, zero, zilch). (various references)

Ukrainian

що-небудь (any, anything, something), власність (demesne, own, ownership, pelf, possession, property, proprietorship), майно (asset, baggage, capital, estate, goods, holding, property, stuff, things, worth), до якоїсь міри, дещо (some, something, very). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chút gì, chừng mực n� o; một mặt n� o đó, cái gì. (various references)

Welsh

dim (any, anything, no, none, nothing, something). (various references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "aught": aughts. (additional references)

Words ending with "aught": caught, claught, distraught, draught, fraught, mistaught, naught, onslaught, outcaught, retaught, taught, uncaught, untaught, waught. (additional references)

Words containing "aught": claughted, claughting, claughts, daughter, daughterless, daughters, distraughtly, draughted, draughtier, draughtiest, draughting, draughts, draughtsman, draughtsmen, draughty, fraughted, fraughting, fraughts, goddaughter, goddaughters, granddaughter, granddaughters, haughtier, haughtiest, haughtily, haughtiness, haughtinesses, haughty, laughter, laughters, manslaughter, manslaughters, naughtier, naughtiest, naughtily, naughtiness, naughtinesses, naughts, naughty, onslaughts, paughty, preslaughter, slaughter, slaughtered, slaughterer, slaughterers, slaughterhouse, slaughterhouses, slaughtering, slaughterous, slaughterously. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Aught" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aaaagh, aaaghhh, aagghh, Aagghhh, Aaughh, aggghh, agh, aght, arghhh, augh, aughte, aughts, Augst, Augt, auh, aut, baughit, baught, daught, Eugh, faught, Haught, laught, Ugghhh. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ghaut.

-1 letter: ghat, haut, thug.

-2 letters: gat, gut, hag, hat, hug, hut, tag, tau, tug, ugh, uta.

-3 letters: ag, ah, at, ha, ta, uh, ut.

+1 letter: aughts, caught, ghauts, hagbut, naught, taught, waught.

+2 letters: abought, claught, draught, fraught, hagbuts, hangout, haughty, naughts, naughty, paughty, waughts.

+3 letters: although, bushgoat, claughts, daughter, draughts, draughty, fraughts, gauchest, ghastful, hangouts, haunting, laughter, outlaugh, retaught, shantung, uncaught, untaught, upgather, waughted.

+4 letters: authoring, autograph, bushgoats, chaunting, claughted, daughters, draughted, fraughted, gatehouse, goalmouth, hamstrung, haughtier, haughtily, laughters, mistaught, naughtier, naughtily, onslaught, outcaught, outcharge, outlaughs, roughcast, shantungs, shogunate, slaughter, staghound, straphung, ultrahigh, unhatting, upgathers, wauchting, waughting.