100 Other Words for “Nothing”

100 Other Words for

No. Term Definition
1. a blank an empty space
2. a bust a total failure
3. a cipher a person of no importance
4. a dud something worthless
5. a flash in the pan brief success, then nothing
6. a goner something beyond saving
7. a joke something not serious
8. a lemon a defective item
9. a nonentity someone insignificant
10. a nullity something without legal effect
11. a wash no gain or loss
12. absence the state of not being present
13. air something insubstantial
14. anyone’s guess unknown; no clear answer
15. aridity barrenness; lack of substance
16. ashes what remains after burning
17. at a loss without an answer
18. banality emptiness of meaning
19. barely anything almost nothing
20. barrenness lack of growth or results
21. blank empty; without content
22. blankness an empty state
23. bupkis nothing at all
24. cipher a nobody; a zero
25. cluelessness complete lack of knowledge
26. cold comfort little consolation
27. diddly nothing; very little
28. diddly-squat absolutely nothing
29. didn’t amount to much had little value
30. dirt something worthless
31. dregs the least valuable part
32. dust fine, lifeless particles
33. emptiness lack of content or meaning
34. empty air nothing substantial
35. empty space vacant area
36. empty-handed with nothing gained
37. error a miscalculation; no result
38. evanescence quick fading into nothing
39. fade-out gradual disappearance
40. failure lack of success
41. fizzle end without result
42. flop a complete failure
43. fog confusion; lack of clarity
44. for naught without effect
45. futility pointlessness; no result
46. ghost of a chance almost no possibility
47. gone no longer present
48. hardly a thing almost nothing
49. hollow empty inside
50. hollowness lack of substance
51. idle talk speech without meaning
52. inconsequence lack of importance
53. insignificance lack of meaning or value
54. jack nothing at all
55. jack shit absolutely nothing
56. lack absence of something
57. less than nothing worse than none
58. little a very small amount
59. lost cause hopeless effort
60. mere air something unsubstantial
61. missing not present
62. nada nothing
63. naught nothing
64. nil zero amount
65. nix nothing; none
66. no dice no success
67. no joy no luck; no result
68. no soap no chance; no success
69. no such thing it does not exist
70. no-show failure to appear
71. nonexistence state of not existing
72. nonsense meaningless talk
73. nonstarter something that cannot begin
74. not a bean not even a small amount
75. not a bit not at all
76. not a damn thing absolutely nothing
77. not a drop none at all
78. not a glimmer not the slightest hint
79. not a jot not the least amount
80. not a lick not at all
81. not a peep no sound or word
82. not a shred not even a trace
83. not a sign no evidence
84. not a stitch nothing at all
85. not anything nothing whatsoever
86. not worth a cent having no value
87. nowhere no place at all
88. null having no value or effect
89. null set set containing no elements
90. oblivion state of being forgotten
91. out of thin air from nowhere; without basis
92. pointlessness lack of purpose
93. scratch nothing gained; no progress
94. silence absence of sound
95. smoke something without substance
96. squat nothing at all
97. the big zero nothing; no score
98. the void empty nothingness
99. thin air something nonexistent
100. trifle a thing of little value