NULL
Dictionary entry overview: What does null mean?
• NULL (noun)
The noun NULL has 1 sense:
1. a quantity of no importance
Familiarity information: NULL used as a noun is very rare.
• NULL (adjective)
The adjective NULL has 1 sense:
1. lacking any legal or binding force
Familiarity information: NULL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NULL (noun)
Meaning:
A quantity of no importance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Synonyms:
aught; zippo; zip; zilch; zero; null; nothing; nix; nil; naught; nada; goose egg; cypher; cipher
Context examples:
it looked like nothing I had ever seen before / reduced to nil all the work we had done / we racked up a pathetic goose egg / it was all for naught / I didn't hear zilch about it
Hypernyms ("null" is a kind of...):
relative quantity (a quantity relative to some purpose)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "null"):
nihil ((Latin) nil; nothing (as used by a sheriff after an unsuccessful effort to serve a writ))
bugger all; Fanny Adams; fuck all; sweet Fanny Adams (little or nothing at all)
• NULL (adjective)
Meaning:
Lacking any legal or binding force
Synonyms:
null; void
Context example:
null and void
Similar:
invalid (having no cogency or legal force)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
