A person of no influence.

synonyms: cipher, cypher, nonentity.

Roget 187: absence; inexistence etc. 2^†; nonresidence, absenteeism; nonattendance, alibi.    emptiness etc. adj.; void, vacuum; vacuity, vacancy; tabula rasa [Lat.]; exemption; hiatus etc. (interval) 198; lipotype^†.    truant, absentee.    nobody; nobody present, nobody on earth; not a soul; ame qui vive [Fr.].    ... show more

Roget 101: zero, nothing; null, nul, naught, nought, void; cipher, goose egg; none, nobody, no one; nichts [G.], nixie [Slang], nix [Slang]; zilch [Slang], zip [Slang], zippo [Slang]; not a soul; ame qui vive [Fr.]; absence etc. 187; unsubstantiality etc. 4^†.    ... show more

Roget 4: unsubstantiality^†, insubstantiality; nothingness, nihility^†; no degree, no part, no quantity, no thing.    nothing, naught, nil, nullity, zero, cipher, no one, nobody; never a one, ne'er a one [Contr.]; no such thing, none in the world; nothing whatever, nothing at all, nothing on earth; not a particle etc. (smallness) 32; all talk, moonshine, stuff and nonsense; matter of no importance, matter of no consequence.    thing of naught, man of straw, John Doe and Richard Roe, faggot voter; nominis umbra [Lat.], nonentity; flash in the pan, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.].    shadow; phantom etc. (fallacy of vision) 443; dream etc. (imagination) 515; ignis fatuus [Lat.] etc. (luminary) 423; such stuff as dreams are made of" [Tempest]; air, thin air, vapor; bubble etc. 353; baseless fabric of a vision" [Tempest]; mockery.    hollowness, blank; void etc. (absence) 187.    inanity, fool's paradise.    ... show more

Roget 876: commonalty, democracy; obscurity; low condition, low life, low society, low company; bourgeoisie; mass of the people, mass of society; Brown Jones and Robinson; lower classes, humbler classes, humbler orders; vulgar herd, common herd; rank and file, hoc genus omne [Lat.]; the many, the general, the crowd, the people, the populace, the multitude, the million, the masses, the mobility, the peasantry; king Mob; proletariat; fruges consumere nati [Lat.], demos, hoi polloi [Gr.], great unwashed; man in the street.    mob; rabble, rabble rout; chaff, rout, horde, canaille; scum of the people, residuum of the people, dregs of the people, dregs of society; swinish multitude, foex populi^†; trash; profanum vulgus [Lat.], ignobile vulgus [Lat.]; vermin, riffraff, ragtag and bobtail; small fry.    commoner, one of the people, democrat, plebeian, republican, proletary^†, proletaire^†, roturier^†, Mr.    Snooks, bourgeois, epicier [Fr.], Philistine, cockney; grisette^†, demimonde.    peasant, countryman, boor, carle^†, churl; villain, villein; terrae filius [Lat.], son of the land; serf, kern^†, tyke, tike, chuff^†, ryot^†, fellah; longshoreman; swain, clown, hind; clod, clodhopper; hobnail, yokel, bog-trotter, bumpkin; plowman, plowboy^†; rustic, hayseed [Slang], lunkhead [U.S.], chaw-bacon [Slang], tiller of the soil; hewers of wood and drawers of water, groundling^†; gaffer, loon, put, cub, Tony Lumpkin^†, looby^†, rube [U.S.], lout, underling; gamin; rough; pot-wallopper^†, slubberdegullion^†; vulgar fellow, low fellow; cad, curmudgeon.    upstart, parvenu, skipjack^†; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites [Lat.], pessoribus orti [Lat.]; bourgeois gentilhomme [Fr.], novus homo [Lat.], snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw.    beggar, gaberlunzie^†, muckworm^†, mudlark^†, sans culotte, raff^†, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian^†, panhandler [Slang], sundowner^†, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench^†, scrub, jade; gossoon^†.    Goth, Vandal, Hottentot, Zulu, savage, barbarian, Yahoo; unlicked cub^†, rough diamond^†.    barbarousness, barbarism; boeotia.    ... show more

Dutch: niemand, nul, schertsfiguur