Meaning

(archaic or dialectal) Anything whatsoever, any part..

Definitions by Sense

1. (archaic or dialectal) Anything whatsoever, any part.
2. (archaic) At all, in any degree, in any respect.
3. (archaic) Whit, the smallest part, iota.
4. (sometimes proscribed) Zero.
5. The digit zero.
6. (regional) Estimation.
7. (regional) Of importance or consequence (in the phrase "of aught").
8. (regional, rare, obsolete) Esteem, respect.

Example Sentences

for aught I know/care

[…] wouldst thou aught with me?

But go, my Son, and ſee if aught be vvanting / Among thy Father's Friends; […]

Then Proclamation was made, that they that had ought to ſay for their Lord the King againſt the Priſoner at the Bar, ſhould forthwith appear and give in their evidence.

[…]to other objects, which for aught we know, may be only in appearance similar.

It was a foolish thing to do; but when was happy youth aught but foolish?

But as soon as her son espied her, bowl in hand, he thought that haply something untoward had befallen her, but he would not ask of aught until such time as she had set down the bowl, when she acquainted him with that which had occurred[…]

His life among these fierce apes had been happy; for his recollection held no other life, nor did he know that there existed within the universe aught else than his little forest and the wild jungle animals with which he was familiar.

Word Forms

• owt
• aughts
• aughting
• aughted

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Use aught when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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