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nonentitive

nonentitive adjective: without substance.

Adjective

nonentitive (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Without substance.
    • But in Trafalagar Square my gentlemanly uniqueness had diminished to something almost nonentitive.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 102
    Synonyms:
    non-entitative

Synonyms of nonentitive

  • non-entitative

Origin of nonentitive

From nonentity + -ive.

Questions about nonentitive

What does nonentitive mean?
Nonentitive means without substance.
What part of speech is nonentitive?
Nonentitive is an adjective.

Words near nonentitive in the dictionary

  1. nonenthusiast
  2. nonenthusiastic
  3. nonenthusiasts
  4. nonentitative
  5. nonentities
  6. nonentitive
  7. nonentitize
  8. nonentitized
  9. nonentitizes
  10. nonentitizing
  11. nonentity

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