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nothingy

nothingy adjective: having very little impact or importance; trivial; insignificant.

Adjective

nothingy (comparative more nothingy, superlative most nothingy)

  1. 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, →ISBN
    • Allhallows-on-Sea's basically a big holiday park spilling up to the shorefront from a nothingy village behind2014, David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks, →ISBN, page 28
    Synonyms:
    nothingish

Synonyms of nothingy

Forms of nothingy

comparativemore nothingy
superlativemost nothingy

Origin of nothingy

From nothing + -y.

Questions about nothingy

What does nothingy mean?
Nothingy means having very little impact or importance; trivial; insignificant.
What part of speech is nothingy?
Nothingy is an adjective.

Words near nothingy in the dictionary

  1. nothingnesses
  2. nothingology
  3. nothings
  4. nothingth
  5. Nothingville
  6. nothingy
  7. nothink
  8. notho-
  9. nothobranch
  10. nothobranchiid
  11. nothobranchiids

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