nongame

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adjective

Not a game, or unrelated to a game

UncommonScrabble 10

Meanings

adjectivenongame (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot a game, or unrelated to a game

    The Monday night team in particular is so annoying with all the nongame chatter, you would think it was a talk show rather than a football game.

    2007 January 7, “Letters to the Editor”, in New York Times
  2. not comparableNot a game animal

    Plants were included recently in the definition of "wildlife" supportable by funds collected via the nongame wildlife checkoff on Illinois income tax returns, but that was a triumph of lobbying, not public opinion.

    1988 April 15, James Krohe Jr., “Where Has All the Flora Gone?”, in Chicago Reader
nounnongame (plural nongames)

plural nongames

  1. An activity, etc. that is not a game.

Origin

  1. Englishnon-
  2. Proto-Germanic*gamaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*gaman
  4. Old Englishgamen
  5. Middle Englishgame
  6. Englishgame
  7. Englishnongame

From non- + game.

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Cite this entry
APA

nongame. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nongame

MLA

“nongame.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nongame. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nongame,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nongame.

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