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

Remember all the hand-wringing over Payton’s nonexistent run game in recent weeks? —Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 19 Dec. 2024

When Starbucks opened its first shop in China in 1999, tea dominated and coffee culture was practically nonexistent. —Alexandra Stevenson, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2024

Your engagement is flat, ROI is nonexistent, and resources are strained. —Shanna Apitz, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024

Girding for battle at USC Pay is at the center of union organizing at USC, where non-tenure track professors complain of semester-to-semester contracts with little job security, minimal or nonexistent raises and moves by the university to cut benefits. —Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1646, in the meaning defined above