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
Jasper WhiteWater was often a luxury, bathrooms were nonexistent, the food was often suspect.—Noel Vietmeyer
Noel VietmeyerAlthough 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
John Noble WilfordExamples of nonexistent in a Sentence
our perennially nonexistent computer tech is, once again, not here today
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The nonexistent legal case that AI suggests could exist in a very similar universe parallel to our own.
—Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
Beyond the coast, California’s mountain towns and desert escapes offer crisp air and a sense of calm that is almost nonexistent in July or August.
—Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2025
The Scottish National Party polls poorly; the Conservatives are all but nonexistent.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
From the 1950s through 2012, the use of the word itself in the press was rare to nonexistent.
—Richard Stengel, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Nov. 2025
Beyond the coast, California’s mountain towns and desert escapes offer crisp air and a sense of calm that is almost nonexistent in July or August.
—Amplified Content Studio, Mercury News, 24 Nov. 2025
The Scottish National Party polls poorly; the Conservatives are all but nonexistent.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
From the 1950s through 2012, the use of the word itself in the press was rare to nonexistent.
—Richard Stengel, Time, 24 Nov. 2025
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“Nonexistent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nonexistent. Accessed 30 Nov. 2025.
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