zilch

Thân thiện

I didn't hear zilch about the surprise party.

Definition

Noun: A quantity or amount of absolutely no importance or value; nothing at all. It is an informal term used to emphasize the complete absence of something.

Examples

• The search for survivors yielded zilch.
• After hours of negotiation, we had accomplished zilch.
• "How much money do you have left?" "Zilch."

Advanced Usage

• To get zilch: To receive nothing.
  • He did all the work but got zilch for it.
• To know zilch (about something): To know absolutely nothing about a subject.
  • I know zilch about quantum physics.

Variants and Related Words

• Zippo (n., informal): Another slang term for nothing.
  • I got zippo from that interview.

Synonyms

• Nothing: The most common and neutral equivalent.
• Nil: Often used in sports scores or formal contexts.
• Zero: A numerical term for nothing.
• Nada: A slang term borrowed from Spanish.
• Goose egg: An informal term, often for a score of zero.

Idioms and Related Phrases

• Zilch, zero, nada: A common emphatic phrase combining three words for "nothing" to stress total absence.
  • I have zilch, zero, nada in my bank account.

Học thuật

Noun

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