nonentity

Examples

• All

• Despite his efforts, he felt like a nonentity in the large company, unnoticed and unimportant.

• You'll develop into a nonentity.

  Strange Interlude (1932)

• Why this interest in such a near nonentity?

  Fiction book (2000)

• - I'm not a nonentity.

  Just the Ticket (1998)

• JONATHAN: This time, I want the face of an absolute nonentity.

  Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

• I presented myself to it as I saw myself in it, a blank, a cipher, a nonentity.

  Fiction book (2001)

• I'm a nonentity.

  Fiction book (1999)

• He's an intellectual nonentity.

  The Raven (2012)

• Not counting prisoners at all puts them in limbo, treating them as nonentities.

  Academic text (2017)

• You're adrift, a nonentity.

  Just the Ticket (1998)

Synonyms

N

nobody

vsnonentity

• Offensive

18 2.4

A person who is not important or well known

is also used for things and for being viewed as not existing

N

nothing

vsnonentity

17 1.0

No thing present in a place or situation

is used for unimportant people or things not mere absence or zero

N

nought

vsnonentity

• Offensive

3 9.9

A person who is unimportant and ignored

is the modern general term rather than an older form

C

cipher

vsnonentity

• Offensive

3 8.4

A person with no power or importance in a group

is broader, applying to people or things and to being seen as not existing

C

cypher

vsnonentity

• Offensive

1 9.9

A person who has no power or influence

is broader, applying also to things and to being seen as not existing

N

nullity

vsnonentity

9.9

A situation when something does not exist

is about people or things lacking influence rather than the abstract state

Antonyms

I

important person

50 1.8

A person whose actions or words change what happens for many people

How Important

public figure

51 3.5

notable

5 4.1

ordinary

5 2.0

nonentity

• Offensive

3 8.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology