nowheresville

noun

no·wheres·ville | \ˈnō-ˌ(h)werz-ˌvil,

-(h)wərz-\

Definition of nowheresville

: nowhere: such as

a : a location lacking identifying or individualizing qualities

b : a place or state denoting failure or relative obscurity a career heading towards nowheresville

Examples of nowheresville in a Sentence

after years of languishing in nowheresville, she started to make it really big in the art world

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My parents were born in South Korea, but I was born in Los Angeles, raised in a nowheresville suburb on frozen TV dinners and laugh-track sitcoms. — Longreads, "My Mongolian Spot," 1 Aug. 2017

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