nothing

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a quantity of no importance

   it looked like nothing I had ever seen before

2. 2
   pron

   Not any thing; no thing.

   Don't just say nothing. Tell me what's going on.

3. 3
   noun

   Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.

   - What happened to your face? - It's nothing.

4. 4
   adv

   Not at all; in no way.

   Nothing too much out of the ordinary.

5. 5
   adj

   Completely unimportant.

   Dallas scored on what had seemed until then like a nothing play.

6. 6
   adj

   Lacking effort or commitment.

   The cricketer played a nothing shot.

7. 7
   adv

   in no respect

8. 8
   pron

   An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.

Etymology

From Middle English nothyng, noon thing, non thing, na þing, nan thing, nan þing, from Old English nāþing, nān þing (“nothing”, literally “not any thing”), equivalent to no + thing. Compare Old English nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing”), Swedish ingenting (“nothing”, literally “not any thing, no thing”).