Synonyms for nonentity


Grammar : Noun
Spell : non-en-ti-tee
Phonetic Transcription : nɒnˈɛn tɪ ti


Définition of nonentity

  • noun nullity
  • noun nonexistent thing
Example sentences :
  • You can't put her off with Mrs. Theobald; she knows as well as we do that she is a nonentity.
  • Extract from : « Where Angels Fear to Tread » by E. M. Forster
  • I can't think of any one you know—not a nonentity—but I should like to bring a friend, if I may.
  • Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
  • Anything to get me out of this hell of deceit, nonentity namelessness.
  • Extract from : « Garrison's Finish » by W. B. M. Ferguson
  • In Europe, as you know, till a woman is married she is a nonentity.
  • Extract from : « The Lure of the Mask » by Harold MacGrath
  • Compare "pseudonym," where the prefix is contracted, and "nonentity."
  • Extract from : « "Stops" » by Paul Allardyce
  • A public nuisance is really more respectable than a nonentity.
  • Extract from : « The Brown Mouse » by Herbert Quick
  • And even if a thing is a thing, it is a nothing to a nonentity.
  • Extract from : « The Lost Art of Reading » by Gerald Stanley Lee
  • An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
  • Extract from : « Pearls of Thought » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • Entity means thing or being; hence a nonentity is no thing or nothing.
  • Extract from : « Orthography » by Elmer W. Cavins
  • The marine officer, Mr Tusk, was a nonentity put into a red jacket.
  • Extract from : « Percival Keene » by Frederick Marryat

Antonyms for nonentity

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