Meanings
comparative more nothingy · superlative most nothingy
- Having very little impact or importance; trivial; insignificant.
We were still chitchatting in the same nothingy vein five minutes later when George opened his bedroom door.
2013, Ali Cronin, Santa Baby, →ISBN2 more examples
Allhallows-on-Sea's basically a big holiday park spilling up to the shorefront from a nothingy village behind
2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 28Scrap signs in front of a low-slung brick building; a nothingy sort of a park with a path cut through the middle of it and daisies dotting the grass.
2015, Sarah Butler, Before the Fire, →ISBNSynonyms: nothingish
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving very little impact or importance; trivial; insignificant.
Origin
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nothingy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nothingy
“nothingy.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nothingy. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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