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nil

/nɪl/noun1 syllable

Nil means: a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential.

Synonyms for nil13

noun, as in a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

nothing, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo

What does nil mean?1

noun

1

a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential“it looked like nothing I had ever seen before”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with nil?36

two syllables

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Show 40 near rhymes
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All 36 rhymes for nil, grouped by syllable

Nil in a sentence

  • City put in another dismal performance, losing two-nil to fellow strugglers Town.sundown
  • One-nil! Rovers open the scoring with an exquisitely worked goal!sundown
  • You know of course that a mathematical line, a line of thickness nil, has no real existence.Hybrid
  • The away team is winning one-nil.sundown
  • The away team are winning one-nil.sundown
  • Null is zero and so is nil.sacredceltic
  • Nilópolis is the smallest municipality in Rio de Janeiro State.marvinibahs2020
  • City went to Rovers on Boxing Day and got a four-nil hammering.sundown

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Forms of nil

as a noun

plural
nils