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

The line between inside and outside is pretty much nonexistent at this Miami Beach house. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2026

An overeager fog machine renders her footwork nonexistent, but honestly, who cares? — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 23 Sep. 2026

But the intermediate passing game was nonexistent; Willis didn’t complete either of his passes that traveled between 10 and 19 yards after completing 6 of 11 such throws in the opener. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2026

Meaningful opposition is effectively nonexistent in Russia, with critics either barred, in jail or exiled abroad. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 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