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[ noh-hwair, -wair ] / ˈnoʊˌʰwɛər, -ˌwɛər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR nowhere ON THESAURUS.COM
adverbin or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found. to no place: We went nowhere last weekend. nounthe 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 Informal.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. Idioms for nowheremiles from nowhere, in a remote, isolated, or inaccessible area. nowhere near, not nearly: There's nowhere near enough food to go around.
Origin of nowherebefore 1000; Middle English (adv.); Old English nāhwǣr, nōhwǣr.See no1, where usage note for nowhereSee anyplace. Words nearby nowherenowadays, now and again, noway, nowel, nowhence, nowhere, nowhere-dense, nowhere near, nowheres, nowheresville, nowhither Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for nowhereUnlike the characters he plays, men who came from nowhere and, as he himself puts it, “go home to nobody.” The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile|Robert Ward|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST Rather, all of the manufactured antibodies are all stirred up but have nowhere to go. When You Get the Flu This Winter, You Can Blame Anti-Vaxxers|Kent Sepkowitz|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST Conservatives get nowhere by demanding “deregulation,” because liberals are correct that most Americans want clean water. Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans|Philip K. Howard|December 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST Nowhere to be found is the anguish, the drama, the pain of an athlete on that level who considering walking away. The Story of the World’s Greatest Cricket Player|William O’Connor|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Logistics wins the day, and the Supreme Deity is, at this juncture, nowhere to be seen. Meet Moses the Swashbuckling Israelite|James Romm|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST The good sense of a gentleman is nowhere more finely developed than in his rings. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History|Thomas Carlyle All around us I saw deep beds of snow, but nowhere such blocks of ice as M. Deser found upon the crest of the Jungfrau. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century|W. H. Davenport Adams She did insinuatingly ask Wilbur what his favourite flower was, but this got her nowhere, because it proved that he did not know. The Wrong Twin|Harry Leon Wilson For a long while the king and his horse followed the course of the stream, but nowhere could he learn anything of Zoulvisia. The Olive Fairy Book|Various But nowhere, save perhaps in the domain of religion, does hypocrisy play a greater part than in the sexual domain. The Sexual Question|August Forel
British Dictionary definitions for nowhere
adverbin, at, or to no place; not anywhere get nowhere or get nowhere fast informal to fail completely to make any progress nowhere near far from; not nearly nouna nonexistent or insignificant place middle of nowhere a completely isolated, featureless, or insignificant place Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with nowhere
In addition to the idiom beginning with nowhere also see: - get nowhere
- in the middle (of nowhere)
- out of nowhere
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to nowhereordinary, regular, moderate, mediocre, mundane, humdrum, drab, banal, everyday, workaday, hackneyed, vapid, stupid, dumb, corny, trite, bland, distasteful, uninspired, dull |