Synonyms for non-existent
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : non-ig-zis-tuh ns |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌnɒn ɪgˈzɪs təns |
Top 10 synonyms for non-existent Other synonyms for the word non-existent
- abstract
- aerial
- airy
- allegorical
- apocryphal
- apparitional
- artificial
- asleep
- assumed
- bad
- bankrupt
- bare
- barren
- baseless
- blank
- bygone
- characterless
- chimeric
- chimerical
- closed
- cold
- conceptual
- created
- dead
- deceased
- deceptive
- defunct
- delusive
- departed
- done for
- down the drain
- dreamed-up
- dreamlike
- dreamy
- ethereal
- exanimate
- expired
- extinct
- extinguished
- fabled
- fabricated
- fabulous
- fairy-tale
- false
- fancied
- fanciful
- fantastic
- fantastical
- fantasy
- few and far between
- fictional
- fictitious
- fictive
- figmental
- flimsy
- folkloric
- fool's paradise
- gone
- gossamery
- groundless
- had it
- hallucinatory
- hollow
- hypothetical
- ideal
- illusive
- illusory
- imaginary
- imaginative
- imagined
- immaterial
- impalpable
- imponderable
- inanimate
- inefficacious
- insincere
- insubstantial
- intangible
- invented
- kaput
- late
- legendary
- lifeless
- lost
- made-up
- married
- minus
- misleading
- mock
- mythic
- mythical
- mythologic
- mythological
- nebulous
- no longer published
- no more
- nothing
- notional
- null
- null and void
- obsolete
- omitted
- ostensible
- out
- out of commission
- out of stock
- passed away
- passed on
- perished
- phantasmagoric
- phantasmal
- phantasmic
- powerless
- pretended
- public domain
- quixotic
- reachy
- romantic
- seeming
- shadowy
- sham
- spectral
- storied
- storybook
- supposed
- suppositious
- supposititious
- taken
- tenuous
- theoretical
- traditional
- trumped up
- unaccessible
- unattainable
- unavailable
- unavailing
- unbelievable
- ungrounded
- unreal
- unsanctioned
- unsubstantial
- untrue
- useless
- vacant
- vacuous
- vague
- vain
- vanished
- vaporous
- visionary
- void
- wanting
- whimsical
- without foundation
- worthless
Définition of non-existent
Origin :- also nonexistent, 1650s (n.), 1680s (adj.), from non- + existent.
- As in absent : adj deficient in something needed or usual
- As in mythical/mythological : adj make-believe, fairy-tale
- As in nonexistent : adj fictional, not real
- As in null : adj ineffectual, valueless
- As in unreal : adj fake, make-believe; hypothetical
- As in mythical : adj make-believe
- As in out of print : adj no longer in print
- As in out of business : adj no longer operating as a business
- As in unavailable : adj not available
- As in mythic : adj mythical
- As in mythologic : adj mythical
- As in mythological : adj mythical
- As in notional : adj imaginary
- As in defunct : adj extinct, not functioning
- As in imaginary : adj fictitious, invented
- Immediately both dived, and became as it were non-existent on this sphere.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- Of course, he replied, I and all the world are in a difficulty about the non-existent.
- Extract from : « Euthydemus » by Plato
- There are forces now which were non-existent in the eighteenth century.
- Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
- "So do I," said the Tamburini, who worshipped the breed even when non-existent.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- That rapture was for those who could feel it; for people who could not, it was non-existent.
- Extract from : « O Pioneers! » by Willa Cather
- Its balance sheets are faked, its reserves are non-existent.
- Extract from : « The Green Rust » by Edgar Wallace
- For the rest of the world it was lost, with no particular place and as if non-existent.
- Extract from : « Madame Bovary » by Gustave Flaubert
- In this sense God is neither existent nor non-existent; he is super-existent.
- Extract from : « Christianity As A Mystical Fact » by Rudolf Steiner
- But for half an hour I thought it might as well be non-existent.
- Extract from : « The La Chance Mine Mystery » by Susan Carleton Jones
- It will unquestionably go to a Heaven which is as non-existent as itself.
- Extract from : « Fantazius Mallare » by Ben Hecht
Antonyms for non-existent
- abundant
- actual
- alive
- attending
- authentic
- available
- complete
- effective
- effectual
- existent
- existing
- factual
- filled
- full
- functioning
- genuine
- good
- historical
- live
- operating
- operative
- ordinary
- physical
- practical
- present
- profitable
- proven
- real
- sincere
- substantial
- sufficient
- true
- valid
- valuable
- working
- worthwhile
- worthy
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