nobody

UK /ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/ US /ˈnoʊ.bə.di/

noun 2pron 1

Definitions

pron

Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

I asked several people, but nobody knew how.

As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday.

noun

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?”

Something that has no body or an especially small one.

Collocations

ADJ.

behind, english, equal

Nobody in the office could speak English well enough to help the international clients.

VERB + NOBODY

concerned, met, said, yields

Nobody said anything about the broken window until their mother came home.

NOBODY + NOUN

foresee, somebody, way

Nobody could foresee the economic crisis that would devastate the country just months later.

PREP.

in, on, up, with

Nobody in the office knew how to fix the broken printer yesterday afternoon.

ADV.

once

Nobody once told me that I'd end up working in this office for ten years.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a person of no influence

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good

An action or occurrence must be very bad indeed if it brings no benefit to anyone.

on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog

It is easy to conceal someone's identity on the Internet.

It’s important to caution your readers, however, that they shouldn’t just pluck off an online message and pop it into their story. As they say, on the Internet, nobody knows you’re

nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people

Americans, as a group, are not especially intelligent and can be readily entertained or fooled to produce a financial benefit for someone.

Ed Wood was a backwards genius, he set out to make horror movies and he didn’t know how to do it. . . . Mencken said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of th

nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public

Alternative form of nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.

nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people

Americans, as a group, do not have good taste or sophistication and can be easily amused or distracted to produce financial benefit for someone.

“I remembered that nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public, so I set out to write the worst novel it was humanly possible to write and still get pub

Example Bank

I asked several people, but nobody knew how.

Wiktionary

As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday.

Wiktionary

Nobody phoned, did they?

Wiktionary

“‘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?”

Wiktionary

Nobody understands me.

Tatoeba · #1484

Nobody came.

Tatoeba · #1690

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, nobody is marked as informal. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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