Englishnaught
noun
archaic
all his efforts will have been for naught:
nothing, nothing at all, nought, nil, zero;
Northern English nowt;
informal zilch, not a dicky bird, nix;
British, informal damn all, not a sausage, sweet Fanny Adams, sweet FA;
North American, informal zip, zippo, nada, diddly-squat, a goose egg;
British, vulgar slang bugger all, fuck all, sod all.
□ bring to naught
archaic
□ come to naughtsuch recommendations will only bring to naught efforts to increase cooperation:
ruin, wreck, destroy, devastate, wreak havoc on, reduce to nothing, blight, smash, shatter, dash, torpedo, scotch, make a mess of, mess up;
sabotage, poison;
cancel out, neutralize, negate, render ineffective, make of no use or value;
informal louse up, screw up, foul up, put the kibosh on, banjax, do for, blow a hole in, nix, queer;
British, informal scupper, cock up, dish, muller;
Australian, informal euchre, cruel;
vulgar slang fuck up.
efforts to relocate the event to another seaside resort have so far come to naught:
fail, founder, be unsuccessful, not succeed, lack success, fall through, fall flat, break down, abort, miscarry, be defeated, suffer defeat, be in vain, be frustrated, collapse, misfire, backfire, not come up to scratch, meet with disaster, come to grief, come to nothing, miss the mark, run aground, go wrong, go awry, go astray;
informal flop, fizzle out, come a cropper, bite the dust, blow up in someone's face, go down like a lead balloon.
▷antonyms succeed.
naught Oxford Dictionary of English