1
as in nobody
a person of no importance or influence
his friends couldn't understand why he'd want to marry a girl who was an obvious nothing
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2
as in triviality
something of little importance
you're always worrying about nothing
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as in never
not in any degree, way, or under any condition
nothing daunted by the poor reception his first novel received, he proceeded to write another one
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as in worthless
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Recent Examples of nothing
Becca Longmire,
Peoplemag,
22 Feb. 2024
The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?
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Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
10 Feb. 2024
And just so, these clouds like lines of coke, these fine bird-bone clouds giving structure to the afternoon sky will decompose into faint nothings.
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Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
9 June 2023
But even before that, women like Tina Turner and Josephine Baker were wearing costumes that evoked intimate little nothings.
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Kristen Bateman,
ELLE,
14 Apr. 2023
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Noun
But nothings more peaceful than tomorrow to a man going through pain today.
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Becca Longmire,
Peoplemag,
22 Feb. 2024
The one whose legs turned nothings into somethings, improvising the Lions’ entire defensive game plan into a pile of ash?
—
Sean Keeler,
The Denver Post,
10 Feb. 2024
And just so, these clouds like lines of coke, these fine bird-bone clouds giving structure to the afternoon sky will decompose into faint nothings.
—
Matthew Gavin Frank,
Harper's Magazine,
9 June 2023
But even before that, women like Tina Turner and Josephine Baker were wearing costumes that evoked intimate little nothings.
—
Kristen Bateman,
ELLE,
14 Apr. 2023
See All Example Sentences for nothing
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nothing
Noun
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Yvonne and Nick’s disastrous wedding dinner is the day the cast went from nobodies to actual practitioners of the reality-television arts and sciences.
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Despite the tragicomic instability and the rotating cast of nobodies temporarily tasked with running the country, when seen in macroeconomic terms, Peru appears to be doing just fine, thank you.
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After debuting in 2007, The Big Bang Theory entertained viewers with the everyday trivialities and obsessions of friends who work in science.
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For Rayo’s Conference League play-off second leg against Belarusian side Neman Grodno in August, neither the desks for the media (a triviality) nor the toilets for disabled supporters (a disgrace) had been finished in time.
Noun
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For those on a budget with slightly less zeroes, RPM Bakehouse is a more laissez-faire, cafe-slash bakery.
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Kids whose families had been chased out of half of Europe started the picture studios, the scrap yards that became fortunes, and eventually the software companies that created a whole new world of ones and zeros.
Adverb
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That day, like a frustrated patron in the Champagne room, never came.
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Some of the women who were angry contacted the SFMOMA not simply to share feedback, but to try to ensure Bahr could never work with the institution again.
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Still, Twain squandered his own fortune and Livy’s inheritance on developing Paige’s invention, even as the Mergenthaler Linotype became the industry standard, rendering Paige’s machine worthless.
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Bitcoin is either digital gold or worthless.
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But in my view, our relationships to animals, whose lives are untouched by the existential woes and artifices of personhood, are the richest and most evident ciphers for our own often inscrutable psyches.
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Consider a dashboard that shows applications, including keys and libraries; network traffic protocols and ciphers; hardware, such as HSMs and TPMs; and third-party dependencies, including cryptographic or software bills of materials.
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The long-term health effects of the fire and its smoke probably won’t be known unless researchers conduct a follow-up study, said Eisenman of UCLA.
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Without Shamea being able to take her anger out on Porsha directly, everyone can get the smoke.
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Though there is still no fix for the mutation, the subsequent research spawned by the work of Fraumeni, Li, and other pioneers hasn’t been for naught.
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Sure, you’re invested in seeing Syd, Richie, Carmy, Tina (Liza Colón-Zayas),Neil (Matty Matheson), Marcus (Lionel Boyce), and Natalie (Abby Elliott) come together and perform at their best, but without the stakes of earning a Michelin star, all their anxiety is for nought.
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“Nothing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nothing. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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