NOBODY Synonyms: 67 Similar and Opposite Words

nobody 1 of 2

noun

Definition of nobody

as in cipher

a person of no importance or influence tired of feeling like a nobody, she decided to launch her own business

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nobody

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pronoun

ˈnō-(ˌ)bə-dē

as in none

no person there is nobody home nobody wants to clean up that mess

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none
no one

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Many of Newsom’s critics who breathlessly report on his evil plans (that the left-wing mainstream media supposedly cover up) are just nobodies who feign authority and are obviously fronting for right-wing organizations. — Dan Walters, Oc Register, 16 Dec. 2025 Where else could award winning writers pop off about nothing at all, and nobodies could rattle the ivory towers? — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025 Professional athletes, however, aren’t nobodies. — Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025 More importantly, the narrative explores both sides of the conflict from the POV of grunts and 'nobodies' trying to navigate the post-Civil War state of the galaxy before the fighting stops. — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 4 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for nobody

Recent Examples of Synonyms for nobody

Noun

But in my view, our relationships to animals, whose lives are untouched by the existential woes and artifices of personhood, are the richest and most evident ciphers for our own often inscrutable psyches.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 June 2026
Consider a dashboard that shows applications, including keys and libraries; network traffic protocols and ciphers; hardware, such as HSMs and TPMs; and third-party dependencies, including cryptographic or software bills of materials.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026

Definition of cipher

Noun

The image, captured a year earlier by the Hubble Space Telescope, showed UGC 9050-Dw1, a dwarf galaxy some 115 million light-years from Earth.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026
Watching all ten members sing at once is funny the way the seven dwarves all sleeping in their little beds next to each other is funny.

— Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of dwarf

Noun

While CinemaCon 2026 brought us exciting news about new films, it was also bogged down with status quo nothings about how Amazon MGM still hasn’t found a new James Bond.

— Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2026
When Dana, who, like Virginia, had been successful in writing pleasant but undistinguished nothings—in her case, songs for Billy Rose’s revues—decided to try taking on more serious music by studying with Boulanger, Virginia entered a deep downward spiral.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Jan. 2026

Definition of nothing

Noun

Over the past decade, its forest carbon sink weakened by about 27 percent as harvesting, ageing stands, drought, heat, wildfire and insect outbreaks reduced forest resilience.

— Kari Stoever, Footwear News, 26 Aug. 2026
Move the camera in close enough to fill the frame with an insect's eye, and the lens barrel starts physically blocking ambient light from reaching the scene.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of insect

Noun

Each number is expressed with three additional zeroes, yet going from a million to a billion requires adding 999 million.

— Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 21 Aug. 2026
The needle goes into the record, and the signal is continuous, and digital, of course, breaks it up into zeros and ones.

— Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of zero

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