Inf tab; elect, vote in, place in office; induct, invest, install, instate, inaugurate, ordain, nomination, n. proposal, submission, presentation; appointment, assignment, placement, designation, selection; induction, investment, installation, instatement, inauguration, ordainment, ordination, nominee, n. candidate, office-seeker, runner, bidder, aspirant; assignee, appointee, selectee, nonacceptance, n. 1. rejection, refusal, denial, turndown, declination, declinature; forbiddance, veto, disallowance, interdiction, proscription, negation; renunciation, disclamation, disclaimer, disclaiming, disavowal, retraction, recantation, abnegation; disowning, disinheriting, disinheritance.
2. refutation, disproof, confutation; disagreement, dissent, objection, demur, demurral.
3. disapproval, disapprobation, disparagement, discountenance; censure, animadversion, criticism; condemnation, denunciation, objurgation, berating; re-monstration, expostulation, admonition; protest, demonstration, sit-in, boycott.
nonage, n. I. legal minority, Law. infancy, juvenility, juniority.
2. immaturity, youth, adolescence, childhood, boyhood, girlhood. nonappearance, n. absence, absentation, Inf. failure to show, Inf no-show, Law. default; nonattendance, truancy, truantry, cut, hooky, nonbeliever, n. atheist, freethinker, minimifidian, agnostic, skeptic, nullifidian, unbeliever; doubter, disbeliever, questioner, cynic, doubting Thomas, Pyr-rhonist; empiricist, materialist, phenomenalist; heretic, schismatic, backslider; infidel, pagan, heathen, nonce, n. for the nonce for the present, for today, for the moment, for the present moment, for the present juncture, for the present hour, for the present time, for the time being, for right now, for now; at this occasion, for the particular occasion, for the present occasion, for the occasion at hand, for the immediate occasion, for the present purpose, nonchalance, n. unconcern, unsolicitude, poco-curantism, indifference, apathy, neutrality, lukewarmness; coolness, calmness, self-possession, collectedness, composedness; imperturbability, inexcitability, dispassionateness, unflappability, even-temperedness, mild-temperedness; carefreeness, insouciance, carelessness, easiness, easygoingness, casualness; placidity, serenity, tranquillity, sedateness; self-control, poise, balance, steadiness, nonchalant, adj. unconcerned, unsolicitous, pococurante, blas£, indifferent, apathetic, uninterested, disinterested, lukewarm, cool, calm, composed, collected, self-possessed, Inf together, imperturbable, unexcitable, dispassionate, unflappable, even-tempered, mild-tempered; unruffled, untroubled, unperturbed, undisturbed, unexcited; carefree, insouciant, careless, without a care in the world, happy-go-lucky, free and easy, devil-may-care, Fr. sans souci; easygoing, easy, at ease, relaxed, laid-back, casual; placid, serene, tranquil, sedate; self-controlled, poised, balanced, steady, noncommittal, adj. 1. cautious, careful, gingerly, safe, on the safe side, playing it safe; cool, playing it cool, Inf. playing it close to the vest; wary, watchful, vigilant, alert, on guard, precautious, precautionary, cautionary; reserved, guarded, circumspect, discreet, politic, prudent; wise, smart, canny, Inf. cagey.
2. laconic, taciturn, reticent, of few words; mum, mute, unspeaking, silent; expressing no opinion, neutral, mugwumpish, mugwumpian. noncompletion, n. unfulfillment, nonfulfillment, abortion, miscarriage; nonexecution, nonperfor-