Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nothingy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: noth-ingy
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having very little impact or importance; trivial; insignificant.

Example Sentences

"We were still chitchatting in the same nothingy vein five minutes later when George opened his bedroom door."
"Allhallows-on-Sea's basically a big holiday park spilling up to the shorefront from a nothingy village behind"
"Scrap signs in front of a low-slung brick building; a nothingy sort of a park with a path cut through the middle of it and daisies dotting the grass."

Etymology

From nothing + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: nothing

Inflected Forms

more nothingy (comparative) most nothingy (superlative)

Synonyms

nothingish

Questions

What does nothingy mean?: Having very little impact or importance; trivial; insignificant.
Where does nothingy come from?: From nothing + -y.

How to pronounce nothingy

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