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" nothingnilnixnadanullaughtciphercyphergoose eggnaughtzerozilchzipzippo
complete failure "all my efforts led to naught" naught