Perhaps this god-awful crawl in here wasn't for naught after all.
Sadly, all their attention was for naught.
Your investment would be for naught.
The Theban rulers decreed that only Eteocles should receive the honour of burial, but the decree was set at naught by Antigone, the sister of Polyneices.
Thus the highest idea is that of goodness; things are, only if they are good; being without well-being is naught.