Nothing /(?)/

Noth·ing

Nothing

n.
  1. Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.
    Yet had his aspect nothing of severe.
  2. Nonexistence; nonentity; absence of being; nihility; nothingness.
  3. A thing of no account, value, or note; something irrelevant and impertinent; something of comparative unimportance; utter insignificance; a trifle.
    Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought.
    — Is. xli. 24.
    'T is nothing, says the fool; but, says the friend, This nothing, sir, will bring you to your end.
  4. A cipher; naught. (Arith.)

Phrases & Compounds
Nothing but
only; no more than.
To make nothing of
To make no difficulty of; to consider as trifling or important.

Nothing

adv.
  1. In no degree; not at all; in no wise.
    Adam, with such counsel nothing swayed.
    The influence of reason in producing our passions is nothing near so extensive as is commonly believed.

Phrases & Compounds
Nothing off
an order to the steersman to keep the vessel close to the wind.