Thesaurus:nonentity
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
Sense: someone small and of no consequence[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
- absolute zero
- also-ran
- chopped liver (originally US, humorous, informal)
- cipher
- crumb (slang)
- Joe Nobody
- little guy
- minnow
- nebbish (Yiddish)
- nobody
- no one
- nothing [⇒ thesaurus]
- nothingburger
- nonentity
- picayune (chiefly, US, informal)
- pip-squeak (US)
- pleb
- peon
- prole
- puny (archaic)
- quidam (obsolete)
- rinky-dink (chiefly US, informal)
- shrimp
- wankstain (UK)
- zero (US)
- zilch (US)
Antonyms[edit]
- important person [⇒ thesaurus]
- big cheese
- big hitter
- big wheel
- somebody
Hyponyms[edit]
- worthless person [⇒ thesaurus]
Hypernyms[edit]
Various[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “nonentity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “nonentity” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.