Dictionary entry

Naught (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Naught, a. 1. Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless.

It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. Prov. xx. 14.

Go, get you to your house; begone, away!

All will be naught else. Shak.

Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker.

2. Hence, vile; base; naughty.

No man can be stark naught at once. Fuller.