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Null

Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.

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Invalid 84% connected

Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Invalid 84% connected

Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

Open English WordNet links these adjective senses as similar in meaning; they are not necessarily interchangeable.

Narrower term 1

Nihil 76% connected

Nothing.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Nullity 74% connected

The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Nullity 74% connected

The quality or state of being null; nothingness; want of efficacy or force.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Synonym 9

Aught 92% connected

Alt. of Aucht

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Cipher 92% connected

A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Cypher 92% connected

See Cipher.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Naught 92% connected

Nothing.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Nil 92% connected

Will not.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Nix 92% connected

One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Nothing 92% connected

Not anything; no thing (in the widest sense of the word thing); -- opposed to anything and something.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Void 92% connected

Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Zero 92% connected

A cipher; nothing; naught.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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