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auxiliary-verb. Used to indicate obligation or duty: You ought to work harder than that.

auxiliary-verb. Used to indicate advisability or prudence: You ought to wear a raincoat.

auxiliary-verb. Used to indicate desirability: You ought to have been there; it was great fun.

auxiliary-verb. Used to indicate probability or likelihood: She ought to finish by next week.

pronoun. Variant of aught1.

n. Variant of aught2.

v. Obsolete A past participle of owe.

n. Alternative spelling of aught. cipher, zero, nought.

v. Simple past of owe.

v. Indicating duty or obligation.

v. Indicating advisability or prudence.

v. Indicating desirability.

v. Indicating likelihood or probability.

pronoun. Alternative spelling of aught. anything

ad. Alternative spelling of aught. at all, to any degree.

n. A statement of what ought to be the case as contrasted to what is the case.

n. See aught.

Was or were under obligation to pay; owed.

Owned; possessed.

To be bound in duty or by moral obligation.

To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed.

Same as aught. Compare naught, nought.

Owned; the preterit of the verb owe, to possess, own. See owe.

Owed; the preterit and past participle of the verb owe, to be indebted or obliged.

To be held or bound in duty or moral obligation.

To be fit or expedient in a moral view; be a natural or expected consequence, result, effect, etc.

To be necessary or advisable; behoove.

To befit: used impersonally.

= Syn. 3-5. Ought, Should. Ought is the stronger, expressing especially obligations of duty, with some weaker use in expressing interest or necessity: as, you ought to know, if any one does. Should sometimes expresses duty: as, we should be careful of others' feelings; but generally expresses propriety, expediency, etc.: as, we should dot our i's and cross our t's.

n. Possession: same as aught.

n. Nought; a cipher.

"The latter has been questioned on the grounds that even if it is true that ˜green™ ought to be applied this way, the ˜ought™ in question may not have anything to do with semantics but, say, with religious practices (Byrne 2002: 207)."

ought to    English tag questions    nought    aught    naught   

aught   

should    owed    owned    possessed    behoove    duty    cipher   

Lot    Mayotte    Wat    begot    bought    brought    caught    distraught    fought    fraught   

reference    could    try    gone    subsequent    dare    yet    answer    latter    wouldest