nowhere

adv

1. (not-comparable)In no place.

   “Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.”

   “The keys are nowhere in the house.”

2. (not-comparable)To no place.

   “We sat in traffic, going nowhere.”

   “If you forget to do this, your interlock circuit won't be made and you'll be going nowhere.”

adj

1. (not-comparable)Unimportant; unworthy of notice.

   “As a foreign stamp gazette it is nowhere. An article on Stamp Collecting, by J. E. Gray, “reprinted from one of his books,” and a catalogue of stamps constitute its sole attraction. We are surprised to find such sounding pretentions so poorly supported.”

   “Elinore was such a bitch, such a nowhere person.”

   “He always allowed them to motivate him to a level of intensity to do better, rather than remain in a nowhere life in a nowhere place like Harlem.”

noun

1. No particular place, noplace.

   “They went on a cruise to nowhere.”

   “While they paced the platform of the station, they reviewed the career of misdemeanours—Nutley, Chiddiugstone, Midhurst, Penn, and many nowheres, and now Aylesbury.”

   “On a warm summer's evening On a train bound for nowhere I met up with the gambler”

   “Oh, not the middle of nowhere like the rest of Indiana, but a nowhere so flat and ugly you want to lie down in a ditch and never get up again.”

   “But some Nowheres do still exist and are there to be found by any genuinely free spirit willing to hook a caravan behind his four-wheel-drive and dream, say, of finding that isolated campsite beside an as yet undiscovered waterhole”