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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

inexistent en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ɪnɪɡˈzɪstənt/

Etymology

From in- + existent.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Nonexistent.
    • And first, although there were more things in nature than words which did expresse them, yet even in these mute and silent discourses, to expresse complexed significations, they took a liberty to compound and piece together creatures of allowable formes unto mixtures inexistent […] 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

Antonyms

existent

Hypernyms

lacking

Relateds

inexistence · unexist

Synonyms

null · beingless · zilch · inexistent · inessential · nonexistent · absent · extinct