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NPC

noun NPCs

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of non-player character When it comes to open-world games and larger experiences, NPCs are crucial to immersing the player in the world and allowing them to feel as though the people they meet along their journey aren’t just robots but, in fact, real individuals and smaller but important pieces to the larger puzzles of the
  2. Internet, countable, figuratively, uncountable A person with no ability to think for themselves; a sheeple (originally referring to opponents of US President Donald Trump). Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, the online message forums, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals. These people, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump’s policies, but because they’re brainw
  3. abbreviation, attributive, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of no patient care
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of Niemann-Pick disease type C
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of nasopharyngeal carcinoma
  6. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of non-printing character
  7. Singapore, abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of neighbourhood police center

proper noun

  1. Philippines, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of National Power Corporation
  2. Philippines, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of National Privacy Commission
  3. abbreviation, initialism Initialism of National Paralympic Committee
  4. Philippine, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Nationalist People's Coalition
  5. China, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of National People's Congress
  6. US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of National Physique Committee
  7. US, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of National Petroleum Council
  8. Nigeria, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of Northern People's Congress
  9. New Zealand, abbreviation, initialism Initialism of National Provincial Championship

verb

  1. intransitive To act as an NPC (“non-player character”) in a game. All characters wish to submit to the game must be either netural or good even though the group will have to interact with evil beings as well. To preserve the group from being totally dark and paranoid, I will NPC the evil characters.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: pnc, cpl, pda, top, pna, nac, fnc, noc, congress, cad, ncb, cpn, nps, npa, afn, ncp

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noun non-player character

EspañolPNJ
FrançaisPNJ
ItalianoPNG (personaggio non-giocabile), NPC
РусскийНИП, не́пись népisʹ

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@misc{npc_2026,
  title = {NPC},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/npc},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}