The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word DOING which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2024.
Word before or after nothing crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
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DOING | 100 % | 5 |
Why may DOING be the right solution?
The word "DOING" can be placed before "nothing" to form "doing nothing" or after "nothing" to form "nothing doing." Both phrases are commonly used in English, making "DOING" the correct answer to the clue.
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Crossword Answer definitions
DOING verb- (auxiliary) A syntactic marker.
- To perform; to execute.
- To cause, make (someone) (do something).
- To suffice.
- To be reasonable or acceptable.
- (ditransitive) To have (as an effect).
- To fare, perform (well or poorly).
- (chiefly in questions) To have as one's job.
- To perform the tasks or actions associated with (something).
- To cook.
- To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
- To treat in a certain way.
- To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
- To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
- To spend (time) in jail. (See also do time)
- To impersonate or depict.
- (with 'a' and the name of a person, place, event, etc.) To copy or emulate the actions or behaviour that is associated with the person or thing mentioned.
- To kill.
- To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
- To punish for a misdemeanor.
- To have sex with. (See also do it)
- To cheat or swindle.
- To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
- To finish.
- To work as a domestic servant (with for).
- (auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
- To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- (ditransitive) To make or provide.
- To injure (one's own body part).
- To take drugs.
- (in the form be doing [somewhere]) To exist with a purpose or for a reason.
- A deed or action, especially when somebody is held responsible for it.
- The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object.
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