precious little
cake crumbs
hard up
dog shit
air
shit all
nought
jack shit
damn all
goat shit
fuck all
cipherhood
bauble
dick all
destitute
diddly-squat
remotely
Fanny Adams
sweet Fanny Adams
bugger all
without
doodly
scantly
not a sausage
zero
nothing
penury
garbage
noot
nixes
sweet FA
nil
sleeves from one's vest
zilch
not hardly
straw
bupkis
no
nada
naught
dust
pile of poo
hee-haw
nix
jack all
sod all
piss all
naked
blank
skin of the teeth
lacking
void
nignay
nish
only
simply
vacuitous
just
but
better than nothing
nowt
vaporosity
merely
ratfuck
duck fart
snap
nothingology
know beans about
vacuous
emptiness
zippo
a fat lot
missing
shit
simi
innocent
wanting
existless
nonexisting
absent
one man and his dog
any old thing
duck egg
drain
zerosville
goose egg
nihil
zip
thingless
nothingness
emptyhanded
pants
hard up
destitute
naked
void
vacuitous
better than nothing
vacuous
zippo
lacking
missing
innocent
wanting
existless
nonexisting
absent
thingless
emptyhanded
zilch
remotely
without
scantly
not hardly
only
simply
just
but
nowt
merely
cake crumbs
dog shit
air
shit all
nought
goat shit
cipherhood
bauble
dick all
diddly-squat
fuck all
Fanny Adams
sweet Fanny Adams
bugger all
doodly
not a sausage
zero
penury
garbage
nixes
nil
sleeves from one's vest
zilch
straw
bupkis
dust
pile of poo
hee-haw
nix
sod all
blank
skin of the teeth
lacking
nignay
nowt
vaporosity
ratfuck
duck fart
snap
nothingology
emptiness
a fat lot
shit
one man and his dog
duck egg
drain
zerosville
goose egg
nihil
zip
nothingness
pants
know beans about
noun
- Nothing; absence of anything.
- understood as a gaseous mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and various trace gases.
- The apparently open space above the ground which this substance fills, (historical) formerly thought to be limited by the firmament but (meteorology) now considered to be surrounded by the near vacuum of outer space.
- understood as a particular local substance with supposed effects on human health.
- A song, especially a solo; an aria.
- A jump in which one becomes airborne.
- A feeling or sense.
- The substance constituting Earth's atmosphere
- A sense of poise, graciousness, or quality.
- Publicity.
- A breeze; a gentle wind.
- A television or radio signal; (by extension) media broadcasts in general.
- An air conditioner or the processed air it produces.
- understood as one of the four elements of the ancient Greeks and Romans.
- Pretension; snobbishness; pretence that one is better than others.
verb
noun
noun
- Nothing, or none.
- A Mitsubishi A6M Zero, a long range fighter aircraft operated by the Japanese Navy Air Service from 1940 to 1945.
- The numeric symbol that represents the cardinal number zero.
- A setting of calibrated instruments such as a firearm, corresponding to a zero value.
- The value of a magnitude corresponding to the cardinal number zero.
- The digit 0 in the decimal, binary, and all other base numbering systems.
- The electromagnetic field does not drop all of the way to zero before a reversal.
- The point on a scale at which numbering or measurement originates.
- A person of little or no importance.
- A security which has a zero coupon (paying no periodic interest).
- The additive identity element of a monoid or greater algebraic structure, particularly a group or ring.
- A value of the independent variables of a function, for which the function is equal to zero.
num
verb
- To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate an instrument scale to valid zero.
- To disappear.
- To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero.
- To cause or set some value or amount to be zero.
- To eliminate; to delete; to overwrite with zeros.
adj
pron
noun
pron
noun
- Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
- A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
- A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
- Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
- A drinking straw.
verb
adj
det
- Hardly any.
- Not any.
- Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
- Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
particle
- Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.
- Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement.
- Used to show agreement with a negative question.
noun
- a negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval
- a vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition
adv
- Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
- not
- Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
prep
intj
pron
pron
noun
- Something worthless.
- The act of cleaning by dusting.
- Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
- The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
- A disturbance or uproar.
- A low or mean condition.
- Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
- The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
- A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
verb
pron
noun
adj
- Lacking or devoid of something.
- Bare, not covered by clothing.
- Without any additives, or without some component that would usually be included.
- Unprotected, uncovered; (by extension) without a condom.
- Where the writer (seller) does not own the underlying asset to cover the contract.
- Resourceless, poor, lacking means.
- Glib, without decoration, put bluntly.
- Unaided, unaccompanied.
- Barren, having no foliage, unvegetated.
- Characterized by the nakedness of the people concerned or to whom the described noun is attributed.
- Uncomfortable or vulnerable, as if missing something important.
- Of a singularity, not hidden within an event horizon and thus observable from other parts of spacetime.
noun
- An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
- Infertile semen.
- A vacant space, place, or period; a void [since the 17th century].
- A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word
- Blank verse .
- Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
- A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
- A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated [since the 16th century].
- A space to be filled in on a form or template.
- A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
- The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
- An unprinted leaf of a book [20th century].
- The ¹ / ₂₃₀₄₀₀ of a grain [17th century].
- Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required [since the 19th century].
- An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory [since the 18th century].
- The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus [20th century].
- The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
- A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
verb
- To make void; to erase.
- To ignore (a person) deliberately.
- To prevent from scoring; for example, in a sporting event.
- To become blank.
- To be temporarily unable to remember.
- To render ineffective by blanketing with turbulent airflow, such as from aircraft wake or reverse thrust.
adj
- Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
- Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
- Utterly confounded or discomfited.
- Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
- Absolute; downright; sheer.
- Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
- Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
- Without expression, usually due to incomprehension.
adj
- Containing nothing; empty; not occupied or filled.
- That does not return a value; a procedure.
- Having no incumbent; unoccupied; said of offices etc.
- Being without; destitute; devoid.
- Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul.
- Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain.
- Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification.
verb
noun
- An empty place; A location that has nothing useful.
- An empty space; a vacuum.
- A collection of adjacent vacancies inside a crystal lattice.
- A pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation.
- An extended region of space containing no galaxies.
- An empty space between floors or walls, including false separations and planned gaps between a building and its facade.
- A black cat.
pron
adv
adv
noun
- Something insignificant or silent.
- A layered (not mixed) drink made of Kahlua, Bailey's Irish cream and Crown Royal (in that order, and ideally with just a float of Crown).
- A sound made when a stone is thrown into the water where the water breaks twice creating a longer sounding "plop".
- A ball hit by a batter into the gray area between the infield and outfield, usually tailing away from whoever is trying to catch it.
noun
- Something of no value.
- A crisp or pithy quality; epigrammatic point or force.
- A tool used by riveters.
- A tool used by glass-moulders.
- A card game, primarily for children, in which players cry "snap" to claim pairs of matching cards as they are turned up.
- A thin circular cookie or similar baked good.
- A snap bean such as Phaseolus vulgaris.
- A quick offhand shot with a firearm; a snap shot.
- A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound.
- The sudden release of something held under pressure or tension.
- A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.
- A rivet: a scrapbooking embellishment.
- That which is, or may be, snapped up; something bitten off, seized, or obtained by a single quick movement; hence, a bite, morsel, or fragment; a scrap.
- A small meal, a snack; lunch.
- Something that is easy or effortless.
- A very short period of time (figuratively, the time taken to snap one's fingers), or a task that can be accomplished in such a period.
- A small device resembling a safety pin, used to attach the bait or lure to the line.
- A brief, sudden period of a certain weather; used primarily in the phrase cold snap.
- briskness; vigour; energy; decision
- An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab.
- A backward pass or handoff of a football from its position on the ground that puts the ball in play; a hike.
- The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
- A fastening device that makes a snapping sound when used.
- A sudden break.
- A photograph; a snapshot.
- A snapper, or snap beetle.
- A newsflash.
- jounce (the fourth derivative of the position vector with respect to time), followed by crackle and pop
- A package provided for the application sandboxing system snapd developed by Canonical.
adj
verb
- To suffer a mental breakdown, usually while under tension.
- To say abruptly or sharply.
- To jump to a fixed position relative to another element.
- To snatch with or as if with the teeth.
- To flash or appear to flash as with light.
- To snap one's fingers: to make a snapping sound, often by pressing the thumb and an opposing finger of the same hand together and suddenly releasing the grip so that the finger hits against the palm; alternatively, by bringing the index finger quickly down onto the middle finger and thumb.
- To cause to move suddenly and smartly.
- To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
- To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.
- To cause something to emit a snapping sound, especially by closing it rapidly.
- To take a photograph; to release a camera's shutter (which may make a snapping sound).
- To attempt to seize with eagerness.
- To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack.
- To give way abruptly and loudly.
- To pull apart with a snapping sound; to pop loose.
- To fracture or break apart suddenly.
- To close something using a snap as a fastener.
- To put (a football) in play by a backward pass or handoff from its position on the ground; to hike (a football).
- To speak abruptly or sharply.
- To misfire.
- To fit or fasten together with a snapping sound.
- To catch out sharply (a batsman who has just snicked a bowled ball).
intj
- The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand.
- "I've got one the same!", "Me too!"
- Ritual utterance used after something is said by two people at exactly the same time.
- Used in place of expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
- Ritual utterance of agreement (after the cry in the card game snap).
noun
noun
- (in negations) Anything.
- Stuff, things.
- Solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels; feces.
- The act of shitting.
- A problem or difficult situation.
- Rubbish; worthless matter.
- Anything exceptional or remarkable.
- Nonsense; bullshit.
- The smallest amount of concern or consideration.
- A strong rebuke.
- Any recreational drug (e.g. cannabis, heroin, etc.).
- A nasty, despicable person, used particularly of men.
- (the shit) The best of its kind.
adj
verb
- To defecate.
- To excrete (something) through the anus.
- To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful.
- To annoy.
intj
adj
- Lacking (something), or knowledge of it.
- Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
- Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign.
- Without wrongful intent; accidental or in good faith.
- Naive; artless.
- Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture.
- Lawful; permitted.
- Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act.
noun
adj
adj
pron
noun
noun
- Something consuming resources and providing nothing in return.
- One terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
- An access point or conduit for rainwater that drains directly downstream in a (drainage) basin without going through sewers or water treatment in order to prevent or belay floods.
- An outhole.
- A conduit allowing liquid to flow out of an otherwise contained volume; a plughole (UK)
- An act of urination.
verb
noun
- Zero; nothing.
- The high-pitched sound of a small object moving rapidly through air.
- An ounce of marijuana.
- Synonym of convolution (“type of mapping function”)
- A zip fastener.
- Energy; vigor; vim.
- A trip on a zipline.
- A zip file.
intj
verb
- To move rapidly (in a specified direction or to a specified place) with a high-pitched sound.
- To close as if with a zip fastener.
- To subject to the convolution mapping function.
- To make (something) move quickly
- To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format.
- To move in haste (in a specified direction or to a specified place).
- To travel on a zipline.
- To close with a zip fastener.
English words for 'almost nothing; hardly anything'
As you may have noticed, above you will find words for "almost nothing; hardly anything". Hover the mouse over the word you'd like to know more about to view its definition. Click 
to find a better fitting word. Finally, thanks to ChatGPT, the overall results have been greatly improved.
Recent Queries
five years of age
allowing light to pass through
cold (drinking) water
to get on with
defensive
paper scrap
capable of being gambled.
precipitate
a female aviator.
competitive relationship
school building
sagging
buttery
not normal
masterful.
to disappear.
in advance.
adjutant
to fall apart
To leave in a hurry
thanks to your support
To cross
nonparticipation
bottomless cup
morion
persuasive.
Not lying
to bawl
to outdo
gas mask
lack of uniformity
to land.
to depart.
wrapping paper
unstable.
ostentatious.
to revoke
Huge
on behalf of
Very important
wasteful.
tribe
to lead astray
sterilization
Indirect
borrowing
reminiscence
to stir up
in general
quality