A failure to attend; omission of attendance; nonappearance.

Inattention.

supporting no vertical weight other than its own; -- of a structural member; as, a non-bearing wall.

A country which is not involved in a war.

Containing no bitumen; not bituminous.

not having supersaturated carbon dioxide in solution; not carbonated; -- of beverages.

not causal.

not causative. Opposite of causative.

The one or single occasion; the present call or purpose; -- chiefly used in the phrase for the nonce, i. e. for the present time.

Not made up of or divided into cells. Opposite of cellular.

Indifference; carelessness; coolness.

Indifferent; careless; cool.

In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.

A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.

Want of cohesion.

Lack of coincidence.

Not coincident.

not able to be folded into a compact form. Opposite of collapsible.

not having columns.

A noncommissioned officer; a military officer appointed from enlisted personnel.

Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; also, any one holding a similar position with respect to the navy.

not combinative. Opposite of combinative.

not able to combine.

Not combustible; not able to burn; as, drapery should be made of noncombustible materials. Opposite of combustible.

not connected with or engaged in commercial enterprises. Opposite of commercial.

Not having a commission.

Not expressing a preference; as, although favoring European unity he was noncommittal about the form it should take.

A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

Neglect or failure of communion.

Lack of completion; failure to complete.

Neglect of compliance; failure to comply.

Neglecting or refusing to comply.

See Noncontent.

Not concluding.

To dissent or refuse to concur.

Refusal to concur.

Not condensible; incapable of being liquefied; -- said of gases.

Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.

Not conducting; nonconductive; not transmitting a fluid or force; -- used especially of electric current; thus, in electricity, wax is a nonconducting substance.

The quality of not being able to conduct or transmit; failure to conduct.

A substance which does not conduct, that is, convey or transmit, heat, electricity, sound, vibration, or the like, or which transmits them with difficulty; an insulator; as, wool is a nonconductor of heat; glass and dry wood are nonconductors of electricity.

Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.

One who does not conform to an established church; especially, one who does not conform to the established church of England; a dissenter.

Neglect or failure of conformity; especially, in England, the neglect or refusal to unite with the established church in its rites and modes of worship.

It does not appear; it is not plain or clear; it does not follow.

Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact.

One who gives a negative vote; -- sometimes abridged into noncon. or non con.

Not contributing.

Not current or belonging to the present time. Opposite of current.

not occurring in cycles; not cyclic. Opposite of cyclic.

The edible plumlike fruit of the Australian tree, Parinarium Nonda.

A hydrocarbon of the paraffin series, a white waxy substance, C19H40; -- so called from the number of carbon atoms in the molecule.

Characterized by the absence of a decidua; indeciduate.

not crucial; not comprising a decisive factor in a result. Opposite of crucial and decisive.

not allowable as a tax deduction; as, political contributions are nondeductible. Opposite of deductible.

A neglect or failure of delivery; omission of delivery.

not restricted to a particular religious denomination; as, a nondenominational school.

A failure to deposit or throw down.

Not hitherto described; of no recognizable type or class; odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.

A thing not yet described; that of which no account or explanation has been given; something abnormal, or hardly classifiable.

Want or failure of discovery.

A coarse umbelliferous plant (Ligusticum actaeifolium) with a large aromatic root. It is found chiefly in the Alleghany region. Also called Angelico.

Same as Nones, 2.

Not effective; ineffective.

Not having elasticity; not able to be stretched reversibly.

A person or persons not elected, or chosen, to salvation.

Failure of election.

A substance that is not an insulator (i. e., an electric); that which transmits electricity, as a metal; a conductor.

Not electric; conducting electricity.

Having no emphasis; unemphatic.

Nonexistence; the negation of being.

Not equal or interchangeable in value, quantity, or significance.

A thing not essential.

A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.

The titmouse.

A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices.

Neglect or failure of execution; nonperformance.

Not exempt; subject to (some specified) rule. Opposite of exempt.

The state of not existing; absence of existence; the negation of being; -- usually used with reference to existince in the real world, or logical possiblity; as, the nonexistence of vaporware does not go unnoticed long.

Not having existence.

not exploratory. Opposite of exploratory.

Not explosive.

A failure of exportation; a not exporting of commodities.

No longer existing; inaccessible through loss or destruction.

Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.

not fissile. Opposite of fissile.

not capable of undergoing fission{4}; -- of atoms or chemical elements. Opposite of fissionable.

Not easily ignited, and burning only slowly if ignited.

Neglect or failure to fulfill.

Not having or performing a function.

not sticky or viscous.

Not growing or living in groups or colonies; -- of plants and animals.

Not inheritable through genetic transmission. Opposite of inheritable, and heritable.

Not arranged in a hierarchy. Opposite of hierarchical.

not human. Opposite of human.

According to the French and American notation, a thousand octillions, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a million octillions, or a unit with fifty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

not marked by or given to imitation. Opposite of imitative.

Not having immunity; susceptible; likely to be affected with, if exposed.

Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.

Not importing; not bringing from foreign countries.

not indulgent.

not industrial; -- used of societies. Opposite of industrial and industrialized.

not infectious; --of diseases. Opposite of infectious.

not inflammatory.

Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection.

One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.

not capable of transmission by heredity. Opposite of inheritable.

not institutional. Opposite of institutional.

not committed to an institution; -- op people. Opposite of institutionalized.

not integrated. Opposite of integrated.

not intellectual. Opposite of intellectual.

not able to be interchanged without changing the truth value.

a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes; nonintervention.

not sharing a common point; -- of lines, planes, or surfaces.

The state or habit of not intervening or interfering; as, the nonintervention of one state in the affairs of another.

A vernier.

The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined.

Nonjuring.

Not swearing allegiance; -- applied to the party in Great Britain that would not swear allegiance to William and Mary, or their successors.

One of those adherents of James II. who refused to take the oath of allegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.