nobody

alternative obsolete no body · alternative pronunciation spelling nobuddy · alternative pronunciation spelling nobudy

1. Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

   Nobody phoned, did they?

   2 more examples

   I asked several people, but nobody knew how.

   As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday.

   Synonyms: no one, small fry, small potatoes

plural nobodies · alternative obsolete no body · alternative pronunciation spelling nobuddy · alternative pronunciation spelling nobudy

1. informalA person dismissed as unimportant.

   “‘The nobody you once thought me!’ I repeated, and my face grew a little hot; but I would not be angry: of what importance was a school-girl’s crude use of the terms nobody and somebody?”

   1835, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XXVII, in Villette

   Synonyms: zero, nonentity, loser, absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite

2. Something that has no body or an especially small one.