nowhere

adverb

no·where | \ ˈnō-ˌ(h)wer

, -(h)wər\

Definition of nowhere

(Entry 1 of 3)

1 : not in or at any place The book is nowhere to be found.

2 : to no place I've gotten nowhere with my research. Arguing will get us nowhere.

3 : not at all : not to the least extent —usually used with near nowhere near as seriousnowhere near enough

nowhere

noun

Definition of nowhere (Entry 2 of 3)

1 : a nonexistent place

2 : an unknown, distant, or obscure place or state rose to fame out of nowhere

miles from nowhere

: in an extremely remote place

nowhere

adjective

Definition of nowhere (Entry 3 of 3)

: of or relating to a remote or relatively unknown location a nowhere town

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Synonyms for nowhere

Synonyms: Noun

boondocks, boonies [slang], country, countryside, sticks

Examples of nowhere in a Sentence

Adverb

I have nowhere to go. Nowhere is there more of a population problem than in this city.

Noun

from the looks of things, we're stranded in nowhere and most likely its proverbial middle in a few short years he rose out of nowhere to prominence in the dot-com world

Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb

Missing their families, not knowing how to answer when people ask about holiday plans, nostalgia for happier times, and having nowhere to go for the holidays are just some of the reasons cited for this. — Ashley Edwards Walker, Good Housekeeping, "Modern Estrangement: What Does It Mean to Be Estranged, Anyway?," 21 Dec. 2018 Lee is nowhere to be found on ColourPop, Ulta, or BoxyCharm, and her products are all (mysteriously?) sold out on Morphe. — Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, "Is Laura Lee Getting Dropped by Beauty Brands Because of Her Past Racist Tweets?," 22 Aug. 2018 Last season, Kendall Jenner was nowhere to be seen on the runways during Fashion Week. — Mekita Rivas, Teen Vogue, "Kendall Jenner Says She Skipped Fashion Week for Mental Health Reasons," 7 Aug. 2018 The vast majority of passengers have no meaningful choice between operators, meaning most have nowhere to go when service quality declines. — The Economist, "Why Europe’s train network needs more, not less, competition," 28 June 2018 Farmers in some regions will be able to adapt by growing at higher elevations, but in others there is nowhere else to go. — Justin Worland/alajuela, Time, "Your Morning Cup of Coffee Is in Danger. Can the Industry Adapt in Time?," 21 June 2018 Between now and 2030, 111 million metric tons of trash—straws, bags, water bottles—will have nowhere to go, according to a paper published in Science Advances on Wednesday. — Ellen Airhart, WIRED, "China Won’t Solve the World’s Plastics Problem Any More," 20 June 2018 Sometimes, after a crime on the street, the victim has nowhere to go, Bailey said. — Jessica Anderson, baltimoresun.com, "Baltimore police announce new 'Safe Place' initiative with local businesses," 13 June 2018 The suit by Clayton Gibson over ESF, for instance, went nowhere. — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, "“He never paid us a cent”—man suing Tesla has his own lawsuit-filled past," 31 Oct. 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun

Experts are still working to identify the cause of these out-of-nowhere headaches. — Korin Miller, SELF, "When to See a Doctor About Those Persistent Headaches," 29 Aug. 2018 But perhaps nowhere is Lauren more celebrated than within the fashion world itself. — Steff Yotka, Vogue, "Ralph Lauren Receives an Honorary Knighthood From the United Kingdom," 14 Nov. 2018 Summer can bring out the bugs and nowhere was that more apparent than in this round of Clean Plates. — Mari A. Schaefer, Philly.com, "Large roaches, moldy turkey close down Philly eateries | Clean Plates," 2 July 2018 But perhaps nowhere are the horizons for religion and technology wider – or more lucrative – than in India: roughly 1 billion residents identify as Hindu, and more than half the population is still offline. — Samuel Steinberger, The Christian Science Monitor, "Hindu prayer service? There’s an app for that.," 18 May 2018 There is perhaps no industry that better captures the money-multiplying effect of the Permian boom than the out-of-nowhere emergence of West Texas as a rival to the original capital of U.S. frack-sand mining in northwestern Wisconsin. — David Wethe / Bloomberg, Time, "Why This Sand From Texas Is Suddenly Worth $80 a Ton," 10 July 2018 Chantre Russ arrived in Kansas City on a Greyhound Bus from California with three children, two bags and nowhere to go. — Cortlynn Stark, kansascity, "Mom almost called social services on herself. KCPD and its social workers stepped up," 10 July 2018 Most Finns were in the midst of their annual Midsommerfest weekend celebration {of the longest day) and nowhere to be found. — Steven Shundich, Cincinnati.com, "World Cup 2018: Dispatches from TML Mobster/Guest Hemingway in Russia," 27 June 2018 The small satellite companies that SpaceX had signed up to fly on the Falcon 1 had nowhere to go. — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, "With a simple and cheap rocket, Virgin Orbit aims for the extraordinary," 4 June 2018

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective

Molly, feeling invisible at her mostly white, mostly male law firm, interviewed for a new job at an all-black outfit and questioned her going-nowhere relationship with married boyfriend Dro. — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, "How Insecure Gets Political While Ignoring Trump," 10 Aug. 2018 In New York City’s boroughs of Queens and the Bronx, Ocasio-Cortez came out of seemingly nowhere to upset 10-term incumbent Joseph Crowley in the Democratic congressional primaries last month. — Stephen R. Groves, The Seattle Times, "Ocasio-Cortez stumps for insurgent Democrats in the Midwest," 16 July 2018 But Bird did, and in the process has become one of the most out-of-nowhere success stories in startup history. — NBC News, "The next Uber? Scooter startups flood U.S. cities as funding pours in," 9 July 2018 The red state-blue state banter that happens almost nowhere else in the country. — David Scharfenberg, BostonGlobe.com, "The US military: The greatest social engineering machine ever built," 9 June 2018 By the second half of the 19th century, public rodeo spectacles were popping up in nowhere towns like Deer Trail, Colorado, Pecos, Texas, and Prescott, Arizona. — Melissa Lyttle, Smithsonian, "The First Family of Rodeo," 13 Dec. 2017 Lucy Dacus was an out-of-nowhere success story of 2016. — Philly.com, "Pink, Philadelphia Furniture Show, Food Truck Popup, Booze & Vinyl party and more great Philadelphia events," 12 Apr. 2018 The Flyers were outplayed, outshot, and outworked in the first period — against a going-nowhere team that had lost 10 straight — and fortunate to be in a scoreless tie after 20 minutes. — Sam Carchidi, Philly.com, "Flyers must end poor starts if they hope to make the playoffs," 21 Mar. 2018 Cincinnati took an awkward drive to a nowhere layup. — Chuck Culpepper, chicagotribune.com, "Nevada is the unkillable zombie of the NCAA tournament's haunted graveyard region," 18 Mar. 2018

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