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nil

DEFINITIONS OF: nil

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n a quantity of no importance

“reduced to nil all the work we had done”
Synonyms:
aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
Types:
nihil
(Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ)
Fanny Adams, bugger all, fuck all, sweet Fanny Adams
little or nothing at all
Type of:
relative quantity
a quantity relative to some purpose
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