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nowhere
[ noh-hwair, -wair ]
adverb
- in or at no place; not anywhere:
The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- to no place:
We went nowhere last weekend.
noun
- the state of nonexistence or seeming nonexistence:
A gang of thieves appeared from nowhere.
- anonymity or obscurity:
She came from nowhere to win the championship.
- an unknown, remote, or nonexistent place or region.
adjective
- being or leading nowhere; pointless; futile:
to be stuck in a nowhere job.
- worthless or useless:
That's a nowhere idea if I ever heard one.
nowhere
/ ˈnəʊˌwɛə /
adverb
- in, at, or to no place; not anywhere
- get nowhere or get nowhere fast informal.to fail completely to make any progress
- nowhere nearfar from; not nearly
noun
- a nonexistent or insignificant place
- middle of nowherea completely isolated, featureless, or insignificant place
Spelling Note
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- miles from nowhere, in a remote, isolated, or inaccessible area.
- nowhere near, not nearly:
There's nowhere near enough food to go around.
More idioms and phrases containing nowhere
In addition to the idiom beginning with nowhere , also see get nowhere ; in the middle (of nowhere) ; out of nowhere .Example Sentences
Unlike the characters he plays, men who came from nowhere and, as he himself puts it, “go home to nobody.”
Rather, all of the manufactured antibodies are all stirred up but have nowhere to go.
Conservatives get nowhere by demanding “deregulation,” because liberals are correct that most Americans want clean water.
Nowhere to be found is the anguish, the drama, the pain of an athlete on that level who considering walking away.
Logistics wins the day, and the Supreme Deity is, at this juncture, nowhere to be seen.
Nowhere can be found a region capable of supporting a larger population to the square mile than Lombardy.
But Perpignan being at the end of everywhere and leading nowhere attracts very few visitors.
Judge then of my surprise when I rode up out of the water-washed gully and found them nowhere in sight.
Although the number of slaves in the Brazils is very great, there is nowhere such a thing as a slave-market.
The puffs can be clearly heard with a stethoscope over the region of the stomach, and nowhere else.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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