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

Meanwhile, victims have slammed the department for inconsistent or nonexistent redactions that allowed for the inadvertent release of nude photos and other private information about victims. —Eric Tucker, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026

The Starlink service offers access to internet where connectively is sparse or nonexistent. —Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 11 Feb. 2026

The Wi-Fi is free, but the cell reception is pretty much nonexistent. —Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Feb. 2026

The security representative apologized for missing the nonexistent event. —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 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