nobody

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nobody

/ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/
/ˈnəʊ.bə.di/
/ˈnoʊˌbʌd.i/
/ˈnoʊ.bɑ.di/
/ˈnoʊ.bə.di/ US, unstressed

Where it comes from

From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).

pronoun no body · nobuddy · nobudy

Not any person; the logical negation of somebody. I asked several people, but nobody knew how.
Similar: no one, small fry, small potatoes

Opposite: anybody, anyone, everybody, everyone, somebody, someone

noun nobodies · no body · nobuddy · nobudy

informal A person dismissed as unimportant. “‘The nobody you once thought me!’ I repeated, and my face grew a little hot; but I would not be angry: of what importance was a school-girl’s crude use of the terms nobody and somebody?”
Similar: zero, nonentity, loser, absolute zero, assbucket, asswipe, badling, blatherskite, bugger, carrion, cipher, cockstain
Something that has no body or an especially small one.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: nonentity, cypher, cipher, unknown, none, noone, someone, not, empty, nothing, individual, knows, anything, capita, people, somebody

pronoun

Opposite: anybody, anyone, everybody, everyone, somebody, someone

Translations

Every language

noun unimportant person

Español	nadie, don nadie, donnadie, doñanadie, doña nadie, pelagatos
中文	無名小卒 /无名小卒 wúmíng xiǎozú
Português	joão-ninguém, zé-ninguém, ninguém, nulidade
Français	quidam, moins-que-rien, nullité, sous-merde, nul, zéro
Deutsch	Niemand
Italiano	nessuno, nullità, zero assoluto, uomo da niente
Ελληνικά	πουθενάς pouthenás, τιποτένιος tipoténios, ασήμαντος asímantos
Română	nimeni, nulitate, zero
Русский	ничто́жество ničtóžestvo

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@misc{nobody_2026,
  title = {nobody},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nobody},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}