What is the meaning of nil?

A quantity of no importance.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: nothing, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo

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APA	WordNet. (2010). nil. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/nil/definitions/1297590
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