Ought vs. Aught — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ought and Aught
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Ought
Variant of aught2.
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Aught
The digit zero.
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Ought
A past participle of owe.
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Aught
Anything whatsoever, any part.
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Ought
(obsolete) owe
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Aught
(archaic) At all, in any degree, in any respect.
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Ought
(auxiliary) Indicating duty or obligation.
I ought to vote in the coming election.
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Aught
Whit, the smallest part, iota
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Ought
(auxiliary) Indicating advisability or prudence.
You ought to stand back from the edge of the platform.
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Aught
(archaic) zero
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Ought
(auxiliary) Indicating desirability.
He ought to read the book; it was very good.
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Aught
The digit zero
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Ought
(auxiliary) Indicating likelihood or probability.
We ought to arrive by noon if we take the motorway.
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Aught
(regional) Estimation.
In my aught.
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Ought
Alternative spelling of aught; anything
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Aught
(regional) Of importance or consequence (in the phrase "of aught").
An event of aught.
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Ought
Alternative spelling of aught; at all, to any degree.
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Aught
Esteem, respect.
A man of aught (a man of high esteem, an important or well-respected man).
Show some aught to your elders, boy.
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Ought
A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted with what is the case.
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Aught
Form of Obsolete or dialectal form
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Ought
See Aught.
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Aught
Form of Obsolete or dialectal form.
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Ought
Was or were under obligation to pay; owed.
This due obedience which they ought to the king.
The love and duty I long have ought you.
[He] said . . . you ought him a thousand pound.
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Aught
Property; possession.
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Ought
Owned; possessed.
The knight the which that castle ought.
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Aught
Anything; any part.
There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken.
But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting.
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Ought
To be bound in duty or by moral obligation.
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak.
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Aught
At all; in any degree.
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Ought
To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; - in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed.
To speak of this as it ought, would ask a volume.
Ought not Christ to have suffered these things?
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Aught
A quantity of no importance;
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
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