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non

/nɑn/ US
/nɒn/ UK

adverb

not comparable, obsolete Obsolete form of none
nonstandard, not comparable Used to negate or invert the meaning of the following adjective. More properly written as the prefix non-. We have more veins than needed. These veins are essentially used up. The solution collapses the non essential veins and the body reroutes the blood flow. We have thousands of them

noun nons

Malaysia, slang A non-Muslim citizen.
slang A nonwhite person. For nons to be eligible to apply to live in White countries they also must first go through a thousand years of purging their criminal elements

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Closest in meaning: negative, non-compliance, neither, nay, non-member, nope, noncompliance, not, null, indispensable, lack, failure, but, atypical, absence, defect

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@misc{non_2026,
  title = {non},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/non},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}