[syn: cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nonentity \Non*en"ti*ty\, n.; pl. Nonentities.
1. Nonexistence; the negation of being.
[1913 Webster]
2. A thing not existing. --South.
[1913 Webster]
3. A person or thing of little or no account; an unimportant
person; -- usually used as a disparaging term. [Colloq.]
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nonentity
n 1: the state of not existing [syn: nonexistence,
nonentity] [ant: being, beingness, existence]
2: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher, nobody,
nonentity]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "nonentity":
Middle America, Milquetoast, a nobody, a nothing, absence, baby,
big baby, bourgeoisie, burgherdom, chicken, cipher, common man,
crybaby, deprivation, doormat, dud, dull tool, dummy, emptiness,
figurehead, fourth-rater, gutless wonder, hollow man,
insignificancy, invertebrate, jackstraw, jellyfish, lay figure,
lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity,
meek soul, middle class, middle order, middle orders, milksop,
mollycoddle, namby-pamby, nebbish, negation, negativeness,
negativity, nihility, no great shakes, no prize, nobody,
nobody one knows, nobody special, nonbeing, nonexistence,
nonoccurrence, nonreality, nonsubsistence, not-being, nothing,
nothing special, nothingness, nullity, obscurity, pansy,
pantywaist, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, rushlight,
sad sack, scrub, second-rater, shrimp, silent majority, sissy,
small, small beer, small fry, small potato, small potatoes,
softling, softy, sop, squirt, squit, suburbia, thing of naught,
third-rater, tinhorn, trifle, unactuality, unreality, vacancy,
vacuity, vacuum, void, weak sister, weakling, whiffet,
whippersnapper, zero, zilch