nil means "a quantity of no importance".

How many syllables are in nil?

nil has 1 syllable: nil. In IPA it is /ˈnɪl/.

What is another word for nil?

Close synonyms include nothing, nix, nada, null, aught. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nil a common word?

nil is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

nil — meaning, pronunciation and definition

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
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”
Synonymsnothing nix nada null aught cipher cypher goose egg naught zero zilch zip zippo
Broaderrelative quantity
Narrowernihil bugger all

Other forms of nil

plural: nils·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nil

What does nil mean?: nil means "a quantity of no importance".
How many syllables are in nil?: nil has 1 syllable: nil. In IPA it is /ˈnɪl/.
What is another word for nil?: Close synonyms include nothing, nix, nada, null, aught. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is nil a common word?: nil is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nil come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
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”
Synonymsnothing nix nada null aught cipher cypher goose egg naught zero zilch zip zippo
Broaderrelative quantity
Narrowernihil bugger all

Other forms of nil

plural: nils·

Questions about nil

What does nil mean?: nil means "a quantity of no importance".
How many syllables are in nil?: nil has 1 syllable: nil. In IPA it is /ˈnɪl/.
What is another word for nil?: Close synonyms include nothing, nix, nada, null, aught. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is nil a common word?: nil is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

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