aught

aught ¹ also ought  (ôt)

pron.

Anything whatever: "Neither of his parents had aught but praise for him" (Louis Auchincloss).

adv.

Archaic In any respect; at all.

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[Middle English, from Old English uht; see aiw- in Indo-European roots.]

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aught ² also ought  (ôt)

n.

1. A cipher; zero.

2. Archaic Nothing.

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[From an aught, alteration of a naught; see naught.]

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aught¹, ought [ɔːt] (used with a negative or in conditional or interrogative sentences or clauses) Archaic or literary

pron

anything at all; anything whatever (esp in the phrase for aught I know)

adv

Dialect in any least part; to any degree

[Old English āwiht, from ā ever, ay¹ + wiht thing; see wight¹]

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aught², ought [ɔːt]

n

a less common word for nought (zero)

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

aught - 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" goose egg, nada, naught, nil, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo, cypher, cipher relative quantity - a quantity relative to some purpose nihil - (Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ); "nihil habet" bugger all, Fanny Adams, fuck all, sweet Fanny Adams - little or nothing at all; "I asked for a raise and they gave me bugger-all"; "I know sweet Fanny Adams about surgery"

Translations

aught [ɔːt] N (archaic or liter) → algo, alguna cosa; (with negation) → nada
if there is aught I can do → si puedo hacer algo, si puedo ayudarles de algún modo
for aught I care he can → igual me da si él ...
for aught I know → que yo sepa

aught

n (old, liter) → irgendetwas; he might have moved for aught I know → was weiß ich, vielleicht ist er umgezogen