nonexistent

Something that does not exist.

Adjective

  1. Not existent or existing; not real.
    • "Hrunk" is a nonexistent word.
    • His social skills are nonexistent: he chewed with his mouth open all through dinner.
    • In the 1995 Test Census, the Bureau plans to test the use of Postal Service letter carriers to identify vacant and nonexistent units when it mails census questionnaires. - 1994, William Martin Hunt, Decennial Census:...

    Synonyms: inexistent absent beingless extinct inessential nonexistent null zilch

  2. Not present or occurring.
    • Large cranes were virtually non-existent in the areas I worked with this truck, so we jacked everything on and off[.] - 2000, Bob Foster, Birdum or Bust!, Henley Beach, SA: Seaview Press, page 111:
    • The opposite issue emerges in the summer when students face scorching temperatures with unreliable or nonexistent air conditioning. - 2018 January 4, Janie Tankard Carnock, “Frigid Baltimore City schools: The racism we...

Origin

From non- + existent.

Forms

non-existent non-existant nonexistant

Related

nonexistence nonexistential lost to the world

Noun

  1. Something that does not exist.
    • By showing that no true statements were about nonexistents, he dismissed any facts or knowledge about the so-called beingless. - 2011, Carolyn Swanson, Reburial of Nonexistents, page 5:

Forms

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