NONEXISTENT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does nonexistent mean? 

• NONEXISTENT (adjective)
  The adjective NONEXISTENT has 1 sense:

1. not having existence or being or actuality

  Familiarity information: NONEXISTENT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONEXISTENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not having existence or being or actuality

Context example:

chimeras are nonexistent

Similar:

absent; lacking; missing; wanting (nonexistent)

barren; destitute; devoid; free; innocent (completely wanting or lacking)

nonextant (no longer existing or inaccessible through loss or destruction)

vanished (having passed out of existence)

Also:

extinct ((of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive)

Attribute:

being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)

Antonym:

existent (having existence or being or actuality)

Derivation:

nonexistence (the state of not existing)

 Context examples 

They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)