Associations to the word «Nils»

Wiktionary

NIL, noun. Nothing; zero.
NIL DESPERANDUM, interjection. Do not despair.

Dictionary definition

NIL, noun. A quantity of no importance; "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".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn