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 of nonexistent

• absent
• lacking

Examples of nonexistent in a Sentence

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

Recent Examples on the Web

Their task was to design 100 villas for anonymous (and seemingly nonexistent) Chinese millionaires. — Fred A. Bernstein, Architectural Digest, 4 Nov. 2026

In a spooky turnaround for both teams, the Dream’s cold start was a thing of the past while the Valkyries’ hot start was nonexistent. — Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 1 Nov. 2026

And establishing that Omar or her family deliberately lied about her age would be complicated, because birth records are practically nonexistent in Somalia. — Rozina Ali, New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2026

Strategy has been nonexistent in that turret — another problem — but Jama has been visibly exasperated by Acaster’s guilty conscience. — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026

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