intj
Meaning 1
No! Not at all!
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
nix
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American, UK: /nɪks/
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rhymes with -ɪks
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homophone: nicks
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intj
Meaning 2
A warning cry when a policeman or schoolmaster etc. was seen approaching.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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name
Meaning 3
One of the moons of Pluto (named 21 June 2006.)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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name
Meaning 4
A surname originating as a patronymic.
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name
Meaning 5
Wellington Phoenix FC (a football club based in Wellington, New Zealand competing in the Australian A-League)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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noun
Meaning 6
Nothing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial, uncountable
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Synonyms: nada, zip
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noun
Meaning 7
A treacherous water-spirit
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 8
To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- Nix the last order – the customer walked out.
- 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure He said his roommate had reacted favorably & said he "wanted to share the bed" with him! So I figured that nixed me out of the picture at least for now.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cancel, reject
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
To destroy or eradicate.
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noun
Meaning 10
a quantity of no importance
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nothing, nil, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: relative quantity
Narrower terms: nihil, bugger all, fuck all, Fanny Adams, sweet Fanny Adams
verb
Meaning 11
command against
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I forbid you to call me late at night
- Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store
- Dad nixed our plans
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: command, require
Narrower terms: ban, bar, debar, exclude, enjoin, outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise
History
Etymology
From German nix, colloquial form of nichts (“nothing”). Compare also Dutch niks (“nothing”), informal for niets (“nothing”). More at naught.
Named after the mother of Charon, goddess of darkness and night.
From Nick, diminutive of the given name Nicholas + patronymic suffix -s.
Clipping of Phoenix.
From German Nix, from Middle High German nickes, niches, from Old High German nichus, nihhus, from Proto-Germanic *nikwus (“water-spirit; nix”), from Proto-Indo-European *neygw- (“to wash”). Cognate with Old English nicor (“a water-monster; hippopotamus”) whence English nicker.
Across languages
Translations
86 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: Nix — one of Pluto's moons
- Chinese Mandarin: 冥衛二 /冥卫二 (Míngwèi'èr) — one of Pluto's moons
- Czech: Nix — one of Pluto's moons
- Japanese: ニクス (Nikusu) — one of Pluto's moons
- Korean: 닉스 (Nikseu) — one of Pluto's moons
- Marathi: निक्स (niksa) — one of Pluto's moons
- Afrikaans: niks — colloquial: nothing
- Bulgarian: нищо (ništo) — colloquial: nothing
- Bulgarian: нула (nula) — colloquial: nothing
- Czech: nic — colloquial: nothing
- Danish: niks — colloquial: nothing
- Dutch: niets — colloquial: nothing
- Dutch: niks — colloquial: nothing
- Finnish: niks — colloquial: nothing
- French: ne...rien or rien — colloquial: nothing
- French: que dalle — colloquial: nothing
- Galician: nada — colloquial: nothing
- German: nix — colloquial: nothing
- Italian: niente — colloquial: nothing
- Norwegian: niks — colloquial: nothing
- Persian: هیچ (hič) — colloquial: nothing
- Polish: nic — colloquial: nothing
- Portuguese: nada — colloquial: nothing
- Russian: ничто́ (ništó) — colloquial: nothing
- Spanish: nada — colloquial: nothing
- Bulgarian: воден дух (voden duh) — water spirit
- Chinese Mandarin: 水妖 (shuǐyao) — water spirit
- Dutch: nikker — water spirit
- Dutch: nix — water spirit
- Dutch: watergeest — water spirit
- Esperanto: nikso — water spirit
- Finnish: näkki — water spirit
- French: nix — water spirit
- French: nixe — water spirit
- German: Nix — water spirit
- German: Nöck — water spirit
- Norwegian Bokmål: nøkk — water spirit
- Norwegian Nynorsk: nykk — water spirit
- Norwegian Nynorsk: nøkk — water spirit
- Polish: niksa — water spirit
- Swedish: näck — water spirit
- Czech: zamítnout — to reject or cancel
- Czech: zrušit — to reject or cancel
- Dutch: verwerpen — to reject or cancel
- Finnish: torpata — to reject or cancel
- German: verwerfen — to reject or cancel
- German: annullieren — to reject or cancel
- German: stornieren — to reject or cancel
- Persian: هیچ گرداندن (hič gardândan) — to reject or cancel
- Polish: anulować — to reject or cancel
- Polish: odrzucać — to reject or cancel
- Polish: odrzucić — to reject or cancel
- Polish: uwalać — to reject or cancel
- Polish: uwalić — to reject or cancel
- Polish: kasować — to reject or cancel
- Polish: skasować — to reject or cancel
- Polish: odwoływać — to reject or cancel
- Polish: odwołać — to reject or cancel
- Portuguese: anular — to reject or cancel
- Portuguese: rejeitar — to reject or cancel
- Portuguese: cancelar — to reject or cancel
- Russian: запреща́ть (zapreščátʹ) — to reject or cancel
- Russian: отменя́ть (otmenjátʹ) — to reject or cancel
- Spanish: anular — to reject or cancel
- Spanish: rechazar — to reject or cancel
- Spanish: cancelar — to reject or cancel
- Dutch: vernietigen — to destroy
- Finnish: niitata — to destroy
- German: zerstören — to destroy
- German: vernichten — to destroy
- Persian: نابود کردن (nâbud kardan) — to destroy
- Polish: niweczyć — to destroy
- Polish: zniweczyć — to destroy
- Polish: rozwalać — to destroy
- Polish: rozwalić — to destroy
- Polish: ukrócać — to destroy
- Polish: ukrócić — to destroy
- Polish: ubijać — to destroy
- Polish: ubić — to destroy
- Polish: kłaść kres — to destroy
- Polish: położyć kres — to destroy
- Portuguese: destruir — to destroy
- Spanish: destruir — to destroy
- Spanish: erradicar — to destroy
- Spanish: exterminar — to destroy
- Spanish: aniquilar — to destroy