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none pron. no one, not anyone, nobody, no person; not one; not any;
nil: Of all the people I met, none impressed me more than
Kathy. I'd give you a sweet if I had one, but I have none. I'd
even give you money, but I have none.
non-essential
adj. 1 non-vital, unessential, unneeded, unnecessary, needless,
inconsequential, insignificant, unimportant, superfluous,
dispensable, expendable, gratuitous, uncalled-for, extraneous,
peripheral, extra, de trop, adventitious, additional,
supplemental, adscititious, redundant, accessory, subordinate,
secondary, subsidiary: The non-essential industries were
converted to the war effort during the 1940s.
--n. 2 unessential, inessential, nonentity, cipher, zero,
nobody; extra, supernumerary, spear-carrier, Colloq nothing,
Slang US nebbish: She used him as a lackey, a non-essential
whom she could dispose of at will.
nonetheless
adv. See nevertheless, above.
non-event n. anticlimax, Colloq non-starter, lead balloon, dud, Brit damp
squib: Jeremy's party turned out to be the non-event of the
year.
non-existent
adj. unreal, imaginary, imagined, fictional, fictive, fanciful,
fancied, mythical, fabulous, fabled, illusory, chimerical,
delusive: Although the entire Graeco-Roman pantheon became
non-existent overnight, its gods and goddesses continue to
pervade our culture.
non-flammable
adj. non-combustible, incombustible, non-inflammable,
unburnable; fire-retardant: The government recently passed
regulations requiring that non-flammable materials be used in
upholstered furniture.
no-nonsense
adj. serious, unfrivolous, businesslike, practical,
non-trivial, untrivial: Customs officials take a no-nonsense