nonexistent

adjective

non·​ex·​is·​tent ˌnän-ig-ˈzi-stənt 

: not in actual or present occurrence : not existing

… historical accounts of the first Thanksgiving are almost nonexistent …

—Jasper White

Water was often a luxury, bathrooms were nonexistent, the food was often suspect.

—Noel Vietmeyer

Although brain size and organization became basically modern at least 100,000 years ago, with the robust Neanderthals, their advances in tool-making were slight, their self-expression through art virtually nonexistent.

—John Noble Wilford

Synonyms

• absent
• lacking
• missing
• wanting

Examples of nonexistent in a Sentence

our perennially nonexistent computer tech is, once again, not here today

Recent Examples on the Web

At the end, South erred by leading a club for a nonexistent end play. —Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024

For some, the thought of ever owning a home is becoming more distant, if not nonexistent. —Byalena Botros, Fortune, 3 June 2024

Microsoft first attempted to transition Windows to Arm chips with the Surface RT in 2012, but performance was terrible and app compatibility was virtually nonexistent. —Tom Warren, The Verge, 20 May 2024

The basic reality is this entire generation that’s been born outside of the country, oftentimes their Vietnamese is shaky to nonexistent. —Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1646, in the meaning defined above