nothing */*/*/

UK [ˈnʌθɪŋ] / US pronoun

1) not anything

There was nothing in the room except for a mattress.

She waited and watched, but nothing happened.

nothing at all:

I knew nothing at all about looking after babies.

nothing else:

The smoke alarms were working, but it seemed nothing else was.

nothing new/strange/wrong etc:

I saw nothing strange in the situation.

There's nothing wrong with tourism – it's good for business.

nothing to do/eat/drink etc:

The kids complain that there's nothing to do there.

Some of them had had nothing to eat for three days.

2) not anything that is important or worth thinking about

You're just making a fuss about nothing.

Do I mean nothing to you?

A minor headache is nothing to worry about.

nothing much:

"What did you do while I was gone?" "Nothing much."

3) no money

The car is worth nothing now.

4) informal used in a score to mean "zero"

Our team beat the Eagles, four – nothing.

•

it's nothing/think nothing of it — spoken used as a polite reply when someone has thanked you for doing something for them

"It's very kind of you to bring me home." "Think nothing of it."

nothing of the kind/sort — used for emphasizing that you disagree with someone's statement, or that you refuse to let someone do something

"I'll just stay here then." "You'll do nothing of the kind."

there's nothing in/to something — used for saying that something is not true

There's nothing in the rumours about an affair.

- be nothing if not

- be nothing like

- for nothing

- if nothing else

- nothing but

- nothing doing

- there's nothing better, worse, more exciting etc than

- there's nothing for it but

- there's nothing to it

See:

do with 2), a), like I, say I, stop I, sweet nothings, think I, venture II