for nothing

US pronunciation

American soundfor nothing

fornothing

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final ng sound

for - nothing -> for nothing

Myanmar meaning

(idm) အခမဲ့။ အလကား။ အလဟဿ။ အချည်းအနှီး။

Full entry

nothing /'nʌθÇŋ/ neg pron

နတ္ထိ။ ဘာမျှမရှိ။ မရှိခြင်း။ a box with nothing in it ❍ Nothing (else) matters to him apart from his job. ❍ I've had nothing to eat since lunchtime. ❍ There's nothing you can do to help. ❍ The doctor said there was nothing (serious) wrong with me. ❍ There is nothing as refreshing as lemon tea. ❍ Their chances of winning had faded to nothing. ❍ ‘What's that in your pocket?’ ‘Oh, nothing (ie nothing important, nothing that concerns you). ’ ❍ It used to cost nothing to visit a museum. ❍ (infml) He's five foot nothing (ie exactly five feet tall).
❏ be nothing to sb [IDM] ဘာမျှမဟုတ်တော့ဘူး။ I used to love her but she's nothing to me any more.
❏ for nothing [IDM]
၁။ အခမဲ့။ အလကား။ We could have got in for nothing—nobody was collecting tickets.
၂။ အလဟဿ။ အချည်းနှီး။ All that preparation was for nothing because the visit was cancelled.
❏ have nothing on sb [IDM] (infml)
၁။ … လောက် မကောင်း။ ညံ့သည်။ Today's pop music has got nothing on the old Broadway musicals.
၂။ အမှုလုပ်ရန် ခိုင်လုံသော အကြောင်းမရှိ။ They can't arrest him because they've got nothing on him.
❏ not for nothing [IDM] အလကားမဟုတ်။ အကြောင်းရှိ သည်။ အဓိပ္ပာယ်ရှိသည်။ Not for nothing was he called the king of rock and roll.
❏ nothing but [IDM] မျှသာ။ သာလျှင်။ မှတစ်ပါး။ အခြား…။ His speech was nothing but hot air. ❍ Nothing but a miracle can save her now. ❍ I want nothing but the best for my children.
❏ nothing if not [IDM] (infml) အလွန်တရာ။ သိပ်ကို။ The trip was nothing if not varied.
❏ nothing less than [IDM] (လွန်ကဲသည့် သဘော၊ ကြီးကျယ်သည့် သဘောကိုပြသည့် စကား)။ တစ်ပြားသားမျှ မလျှော့ဘူး။ His negligence was nothing less than criminal. ❍ It was nothing less than a disaster.
❏ nothing like [IDM](infml)
၁။ လုံးဝမတူ။ It looks nothing like a horse.
၂။ လုံးဝမ…။ Her cooking is nothing like as good as yours. ❍ I had nothing like enough time to answer all the questions.
❏ nothing much [IDM] များများစားစားမဟုတ်။ အရေးမကြီး။ မည်မည်ရရ မဟုတ်။ There's nothing much in the fridge. ❍ I got up late and did nothing much all day.
❏ nothingness n [U] ဘာမျှမရှိခြင်း။ the desert's endless expanse of nothingness ❍ Our spirits dissolve into nothingness.
❏ nothing to it [IDM] ဘာမျှမခက်။ လွယ်လွယ်ကလေး။ I did the crossword in half an hour — there was nothing to it.
❏ there is/ was nothing (else) for it (but to do sth) [IDM] မှတစ်ပါးအခြားမရှိ။ …ကလွဲလို့ဘာမျှမရှိ။
There was nothing else for it but to resign.

More examples

There was nothing in the room except for a mattress.
She waited and watched, but nothing happened.
[nothing at all] : I knew nothing at all about looking after babies.
[nothing else] : The smoke alarms were working, but it seemed nothing else was.
[nothing new/strange/wrong etc] : I saw nothing strange in the situation.
There’s nothing wrong with tourism – it’s good for business.
[nothing to do/eat/drink etc] : The kids complain that there’s nothing to do there.
Some of them had had nothing to eat for three days.
You’re just making a fuss about nothing.
Do I mean nothing to you?
A minor headache is nothing to worry about.
[nothing much] : ‘What did you do while I was gone?’ ‘Nothing much.’
The car is worth nothing now.
Our team beat the Eagles, four – nothing.

Synonyms

not anything, zero, nil, zilch, naught, annihilation, aught, bagatelle, banal, banausic, big yawn, bland, blank, boring, characterless, cipher, cliched, clichÃ©d, cornball, cornfed, counterproductive, crumb, demulcent, diddly, doesn't cut it, don't bother, don't concern yourself, doublespeak, dragger, draggy, drear, drop it, drossy, duck egg, dull as dishwater, emptiness, extinction, flat as pancake, flat tire, fly speck, garden variety, goose egg, half-pint, ho hum, ho-hum, ignore it, insignificancy, insipid, it doesn't matter, it's all right, lackluster, laid back, lenitive, let go, let it go, letting go, lifeless, longanimous, low-ranking, lusterless, matte, matter of fact, meaningless, meek, mild, milk-and-water, monotonous, nerdy, never mind, nihil, nihility, nix, no good, no thing, no-account, no-good, nobody, non-existent, nonbeing, nonentity, nonexistence, noplace, not deserving, not fit, not good enough, not worth, nothing much, nothingness, nought, nowhere, null, nullity, obliteration, oblivion, of no account, of no consequence, out of place, peewee, pint-sized, profitless, prosaic, proser, prosy, puny, purportless, puts one to sleep, samely, sapless, scratch, second rate, shoestring, shrimp, shrimper, shutout, sing-song, singsong, small fry, small time, small-fry, sombre, toneless, trifle, two bit, unconsequential, undeserving, unenjoyable, unentertaining, unimportant, uninflected, uninspiring, uninteresting, unknown, unmeaning, unmerited, unpurposed, unresisting, unsanctioned, unstimulating, unvaried, unworthy, vapid, void, weak-kneed, weariful, well-worn, wimpy, wind, workaday, worthless, yawner, zip, zipper, zippo, zot

Antonyms

something