- nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
--1 is a kind of relative quantity
--1 has particulars:nihil; bugger all, fuck all, Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams