Word Meanings - NONENTITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Nonexistence; the negation of being. 2. A thing not existing. South. 3. A person or thing of little or no account.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of NONENTITY)

• Cipher
• Nonentity
• dot
• nothing
• trifle
• button
• (fig
• ) straw
• pin
• rush
• molehill

Related words: (words related to NONENTITY)

• BUTTONHOLE
  The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
• NOTHINGNESS
  1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• BUTTONY
  Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.
• CIPHER
  A character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. 2. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving. 3. A character
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• STRAWED
  imp. & p. p. of Straw.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• STRAW
  E. strew; akin to OFries. stre, D. stroo, G. stroh, OHG. stro, Icel. 1. A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease. 2. The gathered and
• MOLEHILL
  A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty. Having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molehill. South.
• STRAWBOARD
  Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
• NONENTITY
  1. Nonexistence; the negation of being. 2. A thing not existing. South. 3. A person or thing of little or no account.
• STRAW-COLORED
  Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
• NOTHINGARIAN
  One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
• STRAWWORM
  A caddice worm.
• STRAWY
  Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw. Shak.
• BUTTON
  1. A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass. 2. A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; --
• STRAWBERRY
  A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the
• NOTHER
  Neither; nor. Chaucer.
• BUTTONMOLD
  A disk of bone, wood, or other material, which is made into a button by covering it with cloth. Fossil buttonmolds, joints of encrinites. See Encrinite.
• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• MONOTHALAMAN
  A foraminifer having but one chamber.
• MONOTHALMIC
  Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The
• DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
  A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
• NEGINOTH
  Stringed instruments. Dr. W. Smith. To the chief musician on Neginoth. Ps. iv. 9heading).
• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
  A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.
• MONOTHEIST
  One who believes that there is but one God.
• DO-NOTHINGISM; DO-NOTHINGNESS
  Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. Carlyle. Miss Austen.
• INDECIPHERABLE
  Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.