nonentity
noun
, -ˈe-nə-\
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Synonyms
chimera, conceit, daydream, delusion, dream, fancy, fantasy (also phantasy), figment, hallucination, illusion, phantasm (also fantasm), pipe dream, unreality, vision
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Unfortunately, the very qualities that make Dr. John such a compelling artist have effectively rendered him a commercial nonentity in the eyes of most record companies, radio programmers and pop fans. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Dr. John, dead at 77: Revisit our 2017 & 1989 interviews with Rock Hall of Famer," 7 June 2019 If a private informant was enlisted to feel out the Russian connections of a couple of Trump nonentities, this was at least a sensitive and discreet approach to a legitimate question when so many FBI actions were neither. — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, "Clapper Disinformation Campaign," 29 May 2018 Chichikov is not only in government: The squeaking wheels of his carriage are audible wherever corrupt nonentities pawn human lives for petty comforts. — Julian Lucas, New York Times, "The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times," 2 May 2018 Sanofi and Regeneron are making the pricing concession in hopes of jump-starting sales of Praluent, which has been a commercial nonentity since winning approval in 2015. — Damian Garde, STAT, "Saddled with sluggish sales, Regeneron and Sanofi slash the cost of cholesterol-lowering drug," 1 May 2018 But far from a nonentity, Marshall became the longest-serving and most influential chief justice in history. — Kate Galbraith, San Francisco Chronicle, "‘Without Precedent,’ by Joel Richard Paul; ‘Supreme Injustice,’ by Paul Finkelman," 7 Mar. 2018 From the mid-1920s through the mid-1950s, thousands of patients, seen as defectives and moral nonentities, were sterilized without their consent. — Dwight Garner, New York Times, "Beautiful Poems About a House of Horrors," 14 Mar. 2017 For much of hockey’s history, France has been a nonentity. — Tal Pinchevsky, New York Times, "France Prepares to Stake Its Place in World Hockey," 4 May 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'nonentity.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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