Word Meanings - NULL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection; no more. Tennyson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NULL)

• Nugatory
• Trifling
• vain
• inoperative
• ineffectual
• null
• void
• Void
• Wanting
• empty
• vacant
• useless
• nugatory
• destitute
• bereft
• unoccupied
• unfilled
• unsubstantial
• lacking
• invalid

Related words: (words related to NULL)

• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• VACANTLY
  In a vacant manner; inanely.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• NUGATORY
  1. Trifling; vain; futile; insignificant. 2. Of no force; inoperative; ineffectual. If all are pardoned, and pardoned as a mere act of clemency, the very substance of government is made nugatory. I. Taylor.
• BEREFT
  of Bereave.
• LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
  A want of luster. -- a.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• INVALIDE
  See N
• UNSUBSTANTIALIZE
  To make unsubstantial.
• INVALIDITY
  1. Want of validity or cogency; want of legal force or efficacy; invalidness; as, the invalidity of an agreement or of a will. 2. Want of health; infirmity. Sir W. Temple.
• TRIFLORAL; TRIFLOROUS
  Three-flowered; having or bearing three flowers; as, a triflorous peduncle.
• TRIFLING
  Being of small value or importance; trivial; paltry; as, a trifling debt; a trifling affair. -- Tri"fling*ly, adv. -- Tri"fling*ness, n.
• EMPTYING
  The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. (more info) 1. The act of making empty. Shak. 2. pl.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• WANTAGE
  That which is wanting; deficiency.
• TRIFLUCTUATION
  A concurrence of three waves. "A trifluctuation of evils." Sir T. Browne.
• INVALIDATION
  The act of inavlidating, or the state of being invalidated. So many invalidations of their right. Burke.
• LACKBRAIN
  One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak.
• FRANKFORT BLACK
  . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
• CLACK
  MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• BLACKEN
  Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
• BLACKWATER STATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• MAGNASE BLACK
  A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.
• BLACK FLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
• POLACK
  A Polander. Shak.
• UNBEREFT
  Not bereft; not taken away.
• SHOEBLACK
  One who polishes shoes.
• JET-BLACK
  Black as jet; deep black.
• BLACK-JACK
  A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.