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

Their offense has been nonexistent this season, scoring a measly 2.95 runs per game, which ranks last in the AL and 29th in all of MLB, only ahead of the lowly Rockies. —Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025

But the numbers were small and complaints were nonexistent. —Briah Lumpkins, Charlotte Observer, 17 Apr. 2025

Linear motivation for work is nonexistent while Mercury meets Neptune. —Usa Today, USA Today, 17 Apr. 2025

In Doyle’s books, this was nonexistent; Sherlock was turned on by his own brain and the thrill of the chase. —Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1646, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for nonexistent

• coexistent
• equidistant
• inconsistent
• preexistent
• assistant
• consistent
• existent
• insistent
• persistent
• resistant
• subsistent
• distant