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nonentity
noun
1 nonentity
2 nonentity
A person of no influence.
synonyms: cipher, cypher, nobody.
Roget 643:
unimportance,
insignificance,
nothingness,
immateriality.
triviality,
levity,
frivolity;
paltriness
etc.
adj.;
poverty;
smallness
etc.
32;
vanity
etc.
(uselessness)
645;
matter of indifference
etc.
866;
no object.
nothing,
nothing to signify,
nothing worth speaking of,
nothing particular,
nothing to boast of,
nothing to speak of;
small matter,
no great matter,
trifling matter
etc.
adj.;
mere joke,
mere nothing;
hardly anything;
scarcely anything;
nonentity,
small beer,
cipher;
no great shakes,
peu de chose [Fr.];
child's play,
kinderspiel.
toy,
plaything,
popgun,
paper pellet,
gimcrack,
gewgaw,
bauble,
trinket,
bagatelle,
Rickshaw,
knickknack,
whim-wham,
trifle,
trifles light as air;"
yankee notions [U.S.].
trumpery,
trash,
rubbish,
stuff,
fatras†,
frippery;
leather or prunello;"
chaff,
drug,
froth bubble smoke,
cobweb;
weed;
refuse
etc.
(inutility)
645;
scum
etc.
(dirt)
653.
joke,
jest,
snap of the fingers;
fudge
etc.
(unmeaning)
517;
fiddlestick†,
fiddlestick end†;
pack of nonsense,
mere farce.
straw,
pin,
fig,
button,
rush;
bulrush,
feather,
halfpenny,
farthing,
brass farthing,
doit†,
peppercorn,
jot,
rap,
pinch of snuff,
old son;
cent,
mill,
picayune,
pistareen†,
red cent [U.S.].
minutiae,
details,
minor details,
small fry;
dust in the balance,
feather in the scale,
drop in the ocean,
flea-bite,
molehill.
nine days' wonder,
ridiculus mus [Lat.];
flash in the pan
etc.
(impotence)
158;
much ado about nothing
etc.
(overestimation)
482.
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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.
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Dutch: niemand, nul, schertsfiguur
Moby thesaurus: Middle America, Milquetoast, a nobody, a nothing, absence, baby, big baby, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, chicken, cipher, common man, crybaby, deprivation, doormat, dud, dull tool, dummy, emptiness, figurehead, fourth-rater, gutless wonder, hollow man, insignificancy, invertebrate, jackstraw, jellyfish, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, meek soul, middle class, middle order, middle orders, milksop, mollycoddle, namby-pamby, nebbish, negation, negativeness, negativity, nihility, no great shakes, no prize, nobody, nobody one knows, nobody special, nonbeing, nonexistence, nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothing, nothing special, nothingness, nullity, obscurity, pansy, pantywaist, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, rushlight, sad sack, scrub, second-rater, shrimp, silent majority, sissy, small, small beer, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, softling, softy, sop, squirt, squit, suburbia, thing of naught, third-rater, tinhorn, trifle, unactuality, unreality, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, weak sister, weakling, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero, zilch ... show more.
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