Noun: nil nil
- No amount at all; absence of any thing, quantity or value
"reduced to nil all the work we had done";
- nothing, nix [informal], nada [N. Amer, informal], null, aught [archaic], cipher, cypher, goose egg [N. Amer, informal], naught [N. Amer], zero, zilch [informal], zip [N. Amer, informal], zippo [N. Amer, informal], nought [Brit]
Derived forms: nils
Type of: relative quantity
Encyclopedia: Nil, Iraq