nil
Plural: nils
Noun
- Nothing; zero, especially in sports scores.
- a quantity of no importance
- "reduced to nil all the work we had done"
- Nothing; zero.
- A score of zero
Det
- No, not any.
Examples
- His score was nil after three turns due to a run of bad tiles.
- The football match ended in a nil-nil draw.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nīl, a contraction of nihil, nihilum (“nothing”). See
nihilism, nihility.
Synonyms
aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, nada, naught, nix, nothing, null, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
Scrabble Score: 3
nil: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordnil: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
nil: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary