Steven tried his hardest, but it was all for naught, as Tyler won the race in the end.
Example sentence - His efforts were for naught as he had been given the wrong map.
Their efforts came to naught when they lost the papers. Naught means nothing or zero.
Naught is not a bad word
0.3008 = three thousand eight ten thousandths. Zero point three zero zero eight, or naught point three naught naught eight.
"All my efforts to swim fifty lengths of the swimming baths came to naught when, half way, I suffered from severe cramp in my left leg and had to stop!"
Division by naught (Zero) is undefined.
The word "naught" has many meanings. When used as an adjective, it means that something is worthless. If it is used as a proverb it means "nothing" or "zero."
Basically means nothing except for love can....rest of sentence.
no thing; not anything; naught or nonexistence; nothingness
Naught, trifle, nobody.
It means that it was all for nothing. Naught means nothing.
The anagram is "truant."