aught

The definition of aught is another way of saying anything or anything at all.

(noun)

An example of usage of the word aught is to say, “I don't suppose you know anything at all about this stain on the carpet?”

See aught in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Origin: ME < OE awiht < a, ever + wiht, a creature, wight

adverb

Archaic to any degree; at all

See aught in American Heritage Dictionary 4

also ought

pron.

Anything whatever: “Neither of his parents had aught but praise for him” (Louis Auchincloss).

adverb

Archaic In any respect; at all.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old English āuht; see aiw- in Indo-European roots

also ought

noun

Origin:

Origin: From an aught

Origin: , alteration of a naught; see naught

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