nobody
/ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i//ˈnoʊ.bə.di/
nobody pronoun: not any person; the logical negation of somebody.
Pronoun
nobody
Noun
nobody (plural nobodies)
- A 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, bugger, carrion
- Something that has no body or an especially small one.
nobody meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Sanskrit
nobody in Tamil
- ஒருவருமில்லை
nobody in Urdu
- کم حیثیت, کوئی نہیں
nobody in Bengali
- নগণ্য ব্যক্তি, কেহ নহে, কেহ না
nobody in Sanskrit
- nobody; no-one
- नकिस् nákis, माकिस् mā́kis
Examples of nobody in a sentence
- Nobody told me to do it. I did it of my own accord.
- The work was done in secret, so that nobody could object.
- Nobody answered the door when I knocked, so I had no choice but to leave.
Synonyms of nobody
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Antonyms
Forms of nobody
| Pronoun | |
|---|---|
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | nobuddy |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | nobudy |
| alternative form (obsolete) | no body |
| Noun | |
| plural | nobodies |
Origin of nobody
From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).
Words formed from nobody
- it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
- like it's nobody's business
- like nobody else
- like nobody's business
- like nobody's watching
- nobodaddy
- nobodiness
- nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people
- nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American public
- nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people
- nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public
- nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people
- nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public
- nobody's
- nobody's fool
- nobody's perfect
- on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog
- the lights are on but nobody's home
- nobody crab
- no-body crab
Phrases with nobody
Questions about nobody
- What does nobody mean?
- Nobody means not any person; the logical negation of somebody.
- What is nobody in Tamil?
- Nobody in Tamil is ஒருவருமில்லை. See Nobody meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is nobody?
- Nobody can be a pronoun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce nobody?
- Nobody is pronounced /ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/.
Words near nobody in the dictionary
- Noboas
- nobodaddies
- nobodaddy
- nobodies
- nobodiness
- nobody
- nobody crab
- nobody crabs
- nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people
- nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American public
- nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nobody (page history and authors); nobody (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nobody (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nobody (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); नकिस् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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