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nul

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Definition: (negative adj) - no, useless, hopeless (neg. pronoun) - no one

Je n'ai nulle envie de travailler - I have no desire to work.

David est nul en français - David is hopeless at French.

Nul n'est prophète en son pays - No man is a prophet in his own country.

Related: nullard (adj) - hopeless, (noun) - dunce; nullement (adv) - not at all; la nullité - uselessness, incompetence

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