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

Water was often a luxury, bathrooms were nonexistent, the food was often suspect.

—Noel Vietmeyer

Although 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

Synonyms

• absent
• lacking
• missing
• wanting

Examples of nonexistent in a Sentence

our perennially nonexistent computer tech is, once again, not here today

Recent Examples on the Web

The basic reality is this entire generation that’s been born outside of the country, oftentimes their Vietnamese is shaky to nonexistent. —Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2024

Christian, 14, had just come in, practicing his basketball moves, swiveling on his feet, dunking a nonexistent ball. —Eric Boodman, STAT, 21 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1646, in the meaning defined above