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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nonexistent
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
almost
▪ Discussion of what to do to improve matters is almost nonexistent.
▪ Besides, the boundaries of the leprosarium were permeable, and surveillance at the federal level was almost nonexistent.
▪ Education of Negroes was almost nonexistent, and practically all of the race were illiterate.
▪ And third, it takes time, an almost nonexistent commodity in most libraries today.
▪ Ties between the woman and her daughters by a previous marriage were almost nonexistent, the neighbor said.
▪ With digital signals, though, the problem is almost nonexistent.
▪ True, homicides are infrequent and gang warfare is almost nonexistent in a small town.
practically
▪ We would have liked to build, but planning permission in Snowdonia National Park was practically nonexistent.
▪ But checking with knowledgeable people at the Vermont Maple Laboratory, I found that the literature was practically nonexistent.
▪ As it turns out, the Hare virus was practically nonexistent.
▪ Her technique as a performer is practically nonexistent.
virtually
▪ The station telephone rang, a rarity in itself, since phone service on the island was virtually nonexistent.
▪ The price of propane had been controlled until 1983, and competition was virtually nonexistent.
▪ Hilliard recalled that when the Black Panthers formed in 1966, black-on-black crime was virtually nonexistent.
▪ With governmental control of the food supply, railroads, and fuel, states' rights were virtually nonexistent in some areas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Employment and job training for these young people is almost nonexistent.
▪ It turned out that many of the letters of recommendation were from nonexistent companies.
▪ Steady jobs are almost nonexistent in remote parts of the country.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And inequality of income is one reason inflation is nonexistent.
▪ Besides, the boundaries of the leprosarium were permeable, and surveillance at the federal level was almost nonexistent.
▪ Discussion of what to do to improve matters is almost nonexistent.
▪ Even if airline space is available, discounts likely will be nonexistent during this period.
▪ These links were weak or nonexistent in the Low Country, where most villages were identified with only one caste.
▪ We would have liked to build, but planning permission in Snowdonia National Park was practically nonexistent.
▪ Where existing infrastructure is inadequate or nonexistent, new alternatives tend to take off faster.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nonexistent

Nonexistent \Non`ex*ist"ent\, a. Not having existence.

Wiktionary
nonexistent

a. Not existent; not real.

WordNet
nonexistent

  1. adj. not having existence or being or actuality; "chimeras are nonexistent" [ant: existent]

  2. not existing; "innovation has been sadly lacking"; "character development is missing from the book" [syn: lacking(p), missing, wanting(a)]

Usage examples of "nonexistent".

He had short, bandy legs, a flat stomach, and the nonexistent bum of a young boy.

The sea power that Adams had envisioned and worked so hard to attain was nonexistent.

They sat there, comfortable together until Lady Beamish found them and bore them off to the rose arbor after persuading Grandmama that the air was warm and the breeze really close to being nonexistent.

Lloyd Malian was given over one hundred pictures from that nonexistent file.

Hence, this explanation that Monrovia is a nonexistent country and Mungen a non-existent person.

Gregory would not have been good, he knew, but he believed that his chances with this deadly nonperson of a man were nonexistent.

The INC recognized that its original plan was easily dismissed because it relied too heavily on its own nonexistent combat capabilities and very little on U.

Why had I come here seeking nonexistent secrets, killing seals, feeding toothless old men, disturbing the harmony of the Devaki families?

Her spinsterish breasts waxed nonexistent on a chest as flat as his battle shield.

One thing was clear, verability, and nonexistent radar signature, the bouncers though: there was a map outline of North America on would be a last-ditch method to get to the heartland of the which a location had been marked--somewhere in south- Soviet Union to deliver a fatal blow in case of all-out war.

Goats were swift and bouncy, remorhaz and condors inedible, wolves and mammoths wary, humans nonexistent, and cave trolls considered orcs slave-fodder.

Because of its antiquity the legal definitions of its rights, powers and duties were mostly nonexistent.

The drakes seemed fairly calm, despite the fact that their powers were fairly nonexistent within the confines of the protective spell, something new to them.

At the beginning of March 1965 the Hell's Angels were virtually nonexistent.

Even Jabba had given up trying to get a percentage of his nonexistent takings.