nil

noundeterminerattested in dialogue

//nɪl//

Nothing; zero.

noun

1
Nothing; zero.
As to Aristotle's influence on him, we are left free to conjecture whatever seems to us most plausible. For my part, I should suppose it nil.
[T]he overall freedom of a corpse is nil because a corpse is not someone to whom social and political liberty (or unfreedom) can ever correctly be ascribed.
2
A score of zero
The football match ended in a nil-nil draw.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin nīl, a contraction of nihil, nihilum (“nothing”). See nihilism, nihility.

determiner

1
No, not any.
But after two or three hours and nil results, you have to accept that the trail is cold and you can't justify that level of manpower.

Forms

plural: nils

Nikki · A diminutive of the female given names Nicole, Nichole,…Niko · A diminutive of the male given names Nikola, Nikolas, or…Nikolai · A city in Alaska.

nil · Nothing; zero.

Nile · A large river in Africa, usually considered to be the longest…Niles · A surname.nina · A hidden message revealed in the completed grid of a…

The neighbouring pages — Alphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.