null

1. 1.

   lacking any legal or binding force

   “null and void”

   Synonymsvoid

   Similarinvalid

   law

Other forms of null

plural

nulls·

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 null

What does null mean?

null means "a quantity of no importance". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in null?

null has 1 syllable: null. In IPA it is /ˈnʌl/.

What is another word for null?

Close synonyms include nothing, nil, nix, nada, 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 null a common word?

null is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.