different between esculent vs nothing

English

Etymology

From Latin ?sculentus (“fit for eating, eatable, edible; good to eat, delicious; nourishing; full of food”) + English -ent (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of causing, doing, or promoting a certain action). ?sculentus is derived from ?sca (“food; dish prepared for the table; bait”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?ed- (“to eat”)) + -ulentus (suffix meaning ‘abounding in, full of’ forming adjectives).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??skj?l?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??skj?l?nt/
• Hyphenation: es?cul?ent

Adjective

esculent (comparative more esculent, superlative most esculent) (formal)

1. Suitable for eating; eatable, edible.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:edible

   Antonyms: inesculent; see also Thesaurus:inedible
2. (figuratively) “Good enough to eat”; attractive.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:beautiful

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ugly

Coordinate terms

• poculent (obsolete)

Derived terms

• esculentin
• esculent swallow
• inesculent

Translations

Noun

esculent (plural esculents) (formal)

1. Something edible, especially a vegetable; a comestible.
2. (mycology, specifically) An edible mushroom.

Coordinate terms

• poculent (obsolete)

Translations

See also

• esurient

References

Anagrams

• Lucentes, unselect

English

Alternative forms

• (nonstandard) nuffin, nuffink, nuttin', nuthin, nuthin', nuthing, nothin'

Etymology

From Middle English nothyng, noon thing, non thing, na þing, nan thing, nan þing, from Old English n?þing, n?n þing (“nothing”, literally “not any thing”), equivalent to no +? thing. Compare Old English n?wiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing”), Swedish ingenting (“nothing”, literally “not any thing, no thing”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?th'?ng, IPA^(key): /?n????/
• Rhymes: -????
• Hyphenation: noth?ing
• Rhymes: -??

Pronoun

nothing (indefinite pronoun)

1. Not any thing; no thing.
2. An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.

Synonyms

• (not any thing):
  • (standard): not a thing, naught
  • (slang): jack, nada, zip, zippo, zilch, squat, nix
  • (vulgar slang): bugger all, jack shit, sod all (British), fuck all, dick
  • (Northern English dialect): nowt

See Thesaurus:nothing

• (something trifling): nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportant

Antonyms

• anything
• everything
• something

Translations

Noun

nothing (countable and uncountable, plural nothings)

1. Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.

   - What happened to your face?
   - It's nothing.

   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.
2. A trivial remark (especially in the term sweet nothings).
3. A nobody (insignificant person).

   You're nothing to me now!

Translations

Adverb

nothing (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Not at all; in no way.

Derived terms

Related terms

Coordinate terms

• nobody, no one
• nowhere

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “nothing”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN