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2. noncompliance, incompliance, nonobservance, nonfulfillment, Bohemianism; declination, declension, renunciation, renouncement, abnegation, disclamation, nonconsent, negation, rejection, denial, nonacceptance, disapproval, disapprobation, objection, exception, veto; disobediance, insubordination, contumacy, heresy, heterodoxy; intractability, recalcitrance, waywardness, refractiousness, contumaciousness, unruliness, mutinousness, lawlessness, transgressiveness; deviation, aberration, violation, infraction; unconventionality, nonconventionality, originality, uncommonness, uncommonality, unorthodoxy, uniqueness; oddness, queerness, curiousness, strangeness, bizarreness.
nondescript, adj. 1. indefinite, amorphous, un-classifiable; indescribable, hard to describe, protectively colored, Inf. blending into the woodwork, low-profile.
2. dull, unremarkable, colorless, achromatic, gray, U.S. Sl. blah; bland, uninteresting, insipid, Inf. dull as dishwater; prosaic, common, commonplace, mediocre, average, average-looking, Inf. garden-variety, unexceptional.
nondrinker, n. teetotaler, nephalist, abstainer, water-drinker, hydropot; temperance advocate, W.C.T.U. member, prohibitionist, Inf. dry, blue-ribboner, blue-ribbonist, blue-ribbonite; puritan, ascetic; Rechabite, Encratite.
none, pron. 1. no one, not one, not a one, nary a one, never a one, not a soul, nobody on earth.
2. not any, not a bit, not a thing, Inf. not a blessed thing; not a hint, not a trace, not a whit, not a speck, not an iota, not a jot, not an ounce, Inf. not a lick; not a whiff, not a smell, neither hide nor hair.
3. no part, nothing, none, none whatever, nothing at all. See - nothing (def. 1). -adv. 4. not at all, in no way, to no extent, no. See - nothing (def. 9).
nonentity, n. 1. nobody, no one, nothing, unimportant person, Inf. nobody much, obscurity; mediocrity, common man, lightweight, insignificancy, man on the street, man from Peoria; little man, little guy, jackstraw, man of straw, dummy; a big nothing, cipher, zero, naught, an 0 without a figure, Sl. neb-bish, Sl. schlepp; squirt, whippersnapper, punk, pipsqueak, runt, scrub; small fry, no great shakes, no great catch, Sl. small potatoes, second fiddle, second banana; John Doe, Jane Doe, Richard Roe, Mary Roe, Mr. and Mrs. Nobody; John Q. Public, (in England) John Bull, John K. Spelvin, (in Russia) Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov; Joe Doakes, Joe Blow, Joe Zilch; Tom, Dick, and Harry; Brown, Jones, and Robinson.
2. illusion, fantasy, hallucination, delusion, maya; trick, chimera, dream, daydream, bubble, Inf. trip; shadow, air, thin air, smoke, mist, vapor; phantom, spirit, specter, ghost, shade, will-o'-the-wisp; vision, apparition, eidolon, optical illusion, mirage, Fata Morgana; castle in the air, wildest dream, phantasmagoria.
3. nonexistence, nothingness, nihility, nihilism, nullity, existencelessness, Fr. n&ant, nullibicity; unreality, unactuality, nonreality, negativeness, nonlife, nonoccurrence; inexistence, nonsubsistence, insubstantiality, incorporeality, incorporeity; inessentiality, nonbeing, unbeing, not-being; abstraction, immateriality, imponderability, nothing, nirvana; impalpability, intangibility, imperceptibility; oblivion, blank, void, vacuity, vacuum, empty space; negation, emptiness, abeyance; absence, ,nonpresence, nowhereness, nonoccupancy, vacancy.
nonessential, adj. 1. unnecessary, unneeded, needless, superfluous, redundant, expendable, dispensable, unrequired, uncalled-for, gratuitous; unimportant, of little or small importance, of no or no great importance, inconsequential, of little or no consequence, insignificant, of no significance, inconsiderable, inappreciable, of no concern, of no matter, of no account; irrelevant, immaterial, inapplicable, inapt, unconnected, inapposite, inconsequent, beside the point or mark, beside the question, off the subject, nothing to do with it; little, small, minute, bush-league, Inf small-time, Inf. one-horse, SI. dinky, SI. two-bit, SI. small potatoes.
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