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

Examples of nonexistent in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples on the Web

Hand washing seems nonexistent most of the time too! —Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2025

But that didn’t stop his name and home from being shared with law enforcement, who have shown up, armed, twice over the years to demand access to nonexistent marijuana plants. —Sacbee.com, 4 Aug. 2025

Since 2019, OpenAI's commercial operations have grown from nonexistent to making billions in annual revenue. —Jacob Hilton, Time, 22 July 2025

Anyone familiar with the east side of Edgewater knows that street parking is already virtually nonexistent. —Steve Weinshel, Chicago Tribune, 20 July 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1646, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for nonexistent

• coexistent
• equidistant
• inconsistent
• preexistent
• assistant
• consistent
• existent
• insistent
• persistent
• resistant
• subsistent
• distant