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Brit. SI. the moonlight flit; evasion, Si. the runaround; tax-evasion, tax-dodging.
nonplus, v. 1. perplex, puzzle, confound, confuse, Inf. flummox, baffle, bewilder, mystify, stump; disconcert, abash, embarrass, discountenance, disturb, bother, dismay; upset, fluster, rattle, Inf faze, muddle, addle, befuddle.
2. take aback, stun, stupefy, floor, dumfound, Inf flabbergast, astound, astonish, amaze; check, thwart, frustrate, stop, halt, bring to a standstill, Inf. catch up short, gravel.
-n. 3. perplexity, confusion, bewilderment, puzzlement, bafflement, abashment, embarrassment, disconcertion.
4. standstill, impasse, stalemate, deadlock, baffle; halt, stop, check; blind alley, dead end, cul-de-sac.
5. quandary, predicament, plight, pass, straits; dilemma, bind, double bind, catch-22; slough, quagmire, bog, corner, hole, tangle; trouble, difficulty, bother, vexation, Inf. mess, Inf. kettle of fish, Inf how-do-you-do or how-de-do, SI. pickle.
nonplused, adj. 1. perplexed, puzzled, confounded, confused, baffled, bewildered, mystified, stumped, up a stump, Inf. buffaloed; at a loss, at sea, in a bind, on the horns of a dilemma.
2. disconcerted, abashed, embarrassed, out of countenance, disturbed, bothered, dismayed, discomfited, chagrined, distressed, shamefaced, self-conscious.
3. upset, discomposed, unhinged, ruffled, ill-at-ease, uncomfortable, disquieted, Inf shaken; flustered, rattled, muddled, addled, befuddled, disoriented.
4. taken aback, stunned, floored, staggered, dazed, dumfounded, struck dumb, Inf. flabbergasted, astounded, astonished, amazed; shocked, speechless, frozen, paralyzed, incapacited, Inf. thrown off balance; checked, frustrated, stopped, stopped short or halted in one's tracks, caught up short, disarmed.
nonproductive, adj. 1. sterile, unfruitful, unfertile, unfecund, unprolific, barren, unproductive, Bot. acarpous.
2. ineffective, ineffectual, of no effect; futile, vain, pointless, otiose, unavailing, bootless, of no avail; useless, of no use, worthless, nugatory, nugacious; time-wasting, time-killing, time-consuming.
nonprofit, adj. 1. public-service, funded, sponsored, supported, subsidized, financed, not for profit.
2. charitable, philanthropic, altruistic, eleemosynary; benevolent, beneficent, almsgiving.
nonresistance, n. passivity, passiveness, nonopposition, quietism; pacifism, nonviolence, Hinduism. ahimsa; acquiescence, yielding, submission, compliance; resignation, acceptance, complaisance; longanimity, forbearance, tolerance, sufferance, long-suffering, long-sufferingness.
nonresistant, adj. passive, supine, unresisting, nonresisting, nonresistive, nonviolent; acquiescent, yielding, submissive, compliant, complying, complaisant, obedient; resigned, accepting, uncomplaining, stoic, stoical; longanamous, long-suffering, forbearing, tolerant, patient, patient as Job, enduring.
nonsense, n. 1. absurdity, absurdness, nonsensicalness, nonsensicality; ridiculousness, ridiculosity, ludicrousness; asininity, stupidity, fatuity, fatuousness; meaninglessness, self-contradiction, contradiction, invalidity; incongruity, incongruousness, illogic, illogicality, illogicalness; irrationality, irrationalness, senselessness, insensateness, craziness, SI. screwiness; impracticality, impracticalness, foolhardiness, SI. foolheadedness, unreasonableness.