Nevermind vs Nothing - What's the difference?
nevermind | nothing |
Attention, heed.
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Concern, affair.
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Consequence; significant change in or effect on a situation or state; difference.
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*1997 , Annie Jones, Irish Eyes , ISBN 1576731081, page 211 [http://google.com/books?id=91Z18yPCRm4C&q=nevermind&dq=nevermind]:
*:Either way—doesn't mean no nevermind to me, you understand.
*2002 , Lee Gramling, Ninety-Mile Prairie , Pineapple Press, ISBN 1561642576, page 248 [http://google.com/books?id=EPQWl5a-O9EC&pg=PA248&dq=nevermind]:
*:So it don't make a heap of nevermind to me which one you choose!
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To ignore.
*1989 , William Mills, The Arkansas: An American River , page 159
*:Nevermind a sustainable river, a sustainable earth, like an improvident farmer who kills his only milk cow because he wants steak tonight.
*2002 , Chris Lynch, Freewill , page 28
*:"Ya, that's a good idea, neverminding'. Let's ' nevermind , huh?"
*2003 , Nina Revoyr, ''Southland - Page 280
*:Nevermind' that she didn't know him, or that he was Japanese. ' Nevermind that she saw herself as always alone, despite the many people in her life.
*2005 , Alexander T. Newport, The Vomit Factory (Life Is Fake: Death Is Good) , page 399
*:Nevermind' where the eggs & sperm came from. '''Nevermind''' how it is that all these planets & stars came from nothing. ' Nevermind where […].
Not any thing; no thing.
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(slang, in double negatives) Anything
Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.
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A trivial remark (especially in the term (sweet nothings)).
A nobody (insignificant person).
(archaic) Not at all; in no way.
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As nouns the difference between nevermind and nothing
is that nevermind is attention, heed while nothing is something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.As a verb nevermind
is to ignore.As a pronoun nothing is
not any thing; no thing.As an adverb nothing is
(archaic) not at all; in no way.nevermind
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage="... buy what he wants. It's none of your nevermind ."}}
citation, isbn= , passage=Let 'em say she was his mistress, that she was a witch. Wasn't true, but it didn't make any nevermind if they thought it was. Nice woman, quiet, could tell the cards.}}
Quotations
Verb
nothing
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Alternative forms
* (nonstandard) nuffin, nuffink, nuttin'Pronoun
(wikipedia nothing) (English Pronouns)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal, and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
- I didn't see nothing. [= I didn't see anything].
Synonyms
* (not any thing) ** (standard) not a thing ** (slang) jack, nada, zip ** (vulgar slang) bugger all, jack shit, sod all (British), fuck all ** (Northern English dialect) nowt :: See * (something trifling) nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportantAntonyms
* anything * everything * somethingNoun
(en noun)- What happened to your face?'' — ''It's nothing.
- Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings , but pursuances of old truths.
- You're nothing to me now!