Word.ws English Dictionary

nonprime

nonprime adjective: not prime; composite.

Adjective

nonprime (not comparable)

  1. Not prime; composite
  2. Providing credit to borrowers that are more likely to default due to a poor credit history or other problems.
    • Nonprime, sometimes called "near-prime," obligors usually have good credit histories marked by a few default payments.2005, Frank J. Fabozzi, The Handbook of Fixed Income Securities, →ISBN, page 649

Noun

nonprime (plural nonprimes)

  1. A number that is not a prime number.

Forms of nonprime

Adjective
alternative formnon-prime
Noun
pluralnonprimes

Origin of nonprime

From non- + prime.

Questions about nonprime

What does nonprime mean?
Nonprime means not prime; composite.
What part of speech is nonprime?
Nonprime can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near nonprime in the dictionary

  1. nonpriestly
  2. nonprimal
  3. nonprimary
  4. nonprimate
  5. nonprimates
  6. nonprime
  7. nonprimed
  8. nonprimes
  9. nonprimitive
  10. nonprimitives
  11. nonprimordial

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nonprime (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nonprime.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nonprime. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.