Definitions for oughts

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oughts ought

Spelling: [awt]

IPA: /ɔt/

Oughts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in oughts (ghostu).

Definitions for oughts

noun

1. duty or obligation.
2. aught2 .
3. anything whatever; any part:
4. a cipher (0); zero.
5. aughts, the first decade of any century, especially the years 1900 through 1909 or 2000 through 2009.

adverb

1. Archaic. in any degree; at all; in any respect.

noun, adverb

1. aught1 .

auxiliary verb

1. (used to express duty or moral obligation):
2. (used to express justice, moral rightness, or the like):
3. (used to express propriety, appropriateness, etc.):
4. (used to express probability or natural consequence):

Origin of oughts

before 900; Middle English ought, aught, Old English āhte, past tense of āgan to owe

Examples for oughts

There are no oughts in my life which I have gotten from my father.

The three imperative "oughts" for the parent or teacher are herein suggested.

Why, I towld him av he guv the boys a promise, he oughts never to go back from his word.

But don't you see I have grown up outside the pale of duty and 'oughts.'

You must give three oughts to one or two pictures, two oughts to three or four, and one ought to eight or nine.

He ought to have been inside at his business; but oughts went for little with Cyril.

You have a special apparatus within you for dealing with a universe where oughts are flagrantly disregarded.