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Worth Cost Indicating Surprisingly Small Amount Money Furniture

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If you say that something cost n______ or is worth nothing, you are indicating that it cost or is worth a surprisingly small amount of money .If you say that something cost nothing or is worth nothing, you are indicating that it cost or is worth a surprisingly small amount of money .
The furniture was threadbare; he'd obviously picked it up for nothing.
His net UK estate was worth nothing after debts were taken into account.
word nothing
full-definition
pronoun
Nothing means not a single thing, or not a single part of something.
I've done nothing much since coffee time.
The man knows nothing of history or sociology.
He was dressed in jeans and nothing else.
There is nothing wrong with the car.
You use nothing to indicate that something or someone is not important or significant .
Because he had always had money, it meant nothing to him.
This cold snap is nothing compared to a real winter.
She kept bursting into tears over nothing at work.
Do our years together mean nothing?
It is the picture itself that is the problem; so small, so dull. It's a nothing, really.
All it took was a word here, a word there, to convince him that he was a nothing.
If you say that something cost nothing or is worth nothing, you are indicating that it cost or is worth a surprisingly small amount of money .
The furniture was threadbare; he'd obviously picked it up for nothing.
His net UK estate was worth nothing after debts were taken into account.
You use nothing before an adjective or 'to'- infinitive to say that something or someone does not have the quality indicated.
Around the lake the countryside generally is nothing special.
There was nothing remarkable about him.
All kids her age do silly things; it's nothing to worry about.
You can use nothing before 'so' and an adjective or adverb, or before a comparative, to emphasize how strong or great a particular quality is.
Youngsters learn nothing so fast as how to beat the system.
I consider nothing more important in my life than songwriting.
There's nothing better than a good cup of hot coffee.
inflections nothings
cefr-level A1

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