Flagitious vs Null - What's the difference?
flagitious | null |
(literary) Of people: guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.
* 1716 Nov 7th, quoted from 1742, probably Alexander Pope, God's Revenge Against Punning'', from
(literary) Extremely brutal or wicked; heinous, monstrous.
* 1959 (1985), Rex Stout, "Assault on a Brownstone", Death Times Three , page 186:
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective flagitious
is (literary) of people: guilty of terrible crimes; wicked, criminal.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.flagitious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)''Miscellanies, 3rd volume, page 227:
- This young Nobleman was not only a flagitious Punster himself, but was accessary to the Punning of others, by Consent, by Provocation, by Connivance, and by Defence of the Evil committed […].
- As he entered he boomed: "Monstrous! Flagitious !"
Synonyms
* (extremely brutal or cruel) (l), (l), (l), (l)See also
* (l)null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.