no-life
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9.6
- noun
- Offensive
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sin vida
- He spends all his time playing video games; it's like he has no life outside of them.
- a no-life guy
If you've got nothing and you've got no life on the outside, yeah, then jail is a holiday for you.
- If you've got nothing and you've got no life on the outside, yeah, then jail is a holiday for you.
- This is some loser of a person who has no life, who's a database administrator in the bottles of HP, right?
Examples
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I am so tired of listening to founders pontificate about how many hours they work and how they have no life outside their product.
Blog text (14) -
People seriously have no lives.
Blog text (22) -
All right, someone clearly has no life.
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"I have no life of my own.
Fiction book (1993) -
Yeah, I know I have no life.
Blog text (22) -
This kid is gonna have no life! Zero!
Fiction book (1993) -
I'm just going to wait for it to cook up and probably watch like something on Netflix again because I have no life or friends.
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I had no friends, no life outside of my job, and a ton of time to dwell on my feelings.
Blog text (14) -
I have no life.
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It was probably just some tiresome old fellow with nothing better to do and no life of his own to speak of.
Synonyms
79
4.2
A person who prefers to be alone and avoids spending time with others
35
6.1
A person who lives alone away from other people, often for religious reasons
22
7.8
A person who lives alone and avoids other people
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7.2
A person who lives alone and avoids the company of others
A person who spends most time alone and does not go out with friends
A person who spends most time online and has little social life
A person who chooses to live alone away from other people
A person who lives alone and avoids meeting other people
Antonyms
How Social
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
No-life is modern slang made by joining no- ('without') and life ('social life' or time spent with others'). It gives a simple image of someone 'without a life' because they spend most of their time alone or online, which is why we call a person with little social life a no-life.