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.

not capable of causing death.

Not lexical; as, nonlexical morphemes.

Want of limitation; failure to limit.

Not depictable graphically as a straight line; not changing by a constant amount for each unit of time, distance, or other independent variable. Opposite of linear.

Characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language.

not using a writing system; -- of societies, cultures, or tribes.

Not endowed with life; same as inanimate. Opposite of living and animate.

Not malignant, as a disease; -- used especially of tumors; as, a nonmalignant growth on the liver.

Not carrying on manufactures.

not using a mechanism. Opposite of mechanical.

not determined by a mechanical process; partly resulting from a creative process.

Not medullated; without a medulla or marrow, or without a medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber.

One who is not a member; as, nonmembers are not allowed in the club reading room.

State of not being a member.

Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.

Not metallic.

not metamorphic. Opposite of metamorphic.

Not participating in migrations; -- used of animals that do not migrate. Opposite of migratory.

not modern; of or characteristic of an earlier time. Opposite of modern.

not monotonic; -- of relations between variables. Opposite of monotonic.

Neither moral nor immoral; having no connection with morals; not within the sphere of morals or ethics; not ethical; as, imagination is of its nature nonmoral; infants are nonmoral.

Not moving. Opposite of moving.

not being or composed of aborigines; as, the nonnative population of South Africa. Opposite of native.

Not natural; unnatural.

A nun.

Absence of necessity; the quality or state of being unnecessary.

Devoid of nitrogen; as, a nonnitrogenous principle; a nonnitrogenous food. See the Note under Food, n., 1.

Without a nucleus; anucleate.

A silly fellow; a ninny.

Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.

Neglect or failure to observe or fulfill.

Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, nonane; as, nonoic acid, which is also called pelargonic acid. Cf. Pelargonic.

Any one of several metameric unsaturated hydrocarbons (C9H14) of the valylene series.

Not oxygenated.

Without oxygen; characterized by the absence of oxygen; as, a nonoxygenous alkaloid.

not parallel; -- of lines or linear objects. Opposite of parallel.

Not parasitic.

Having no equal; peerless.

withdrawing from the activities of a group.

not particulate. Opposite of particulate.

free from party affiliation or bias. Opposite of partisan.

An inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally; absence of bias toward any particular party.

same as nonpartisan, 1.

Neglect or failure to pay.

Neglect or failure to perform.

not philosophical. Opposite of philosophical.

Capable of living without light; as, nonphotobiotic plant cells, or cells which habitually live in darkness.

Not lying in one plane; not planar; -- said of certain curves.

To puzzle; to confound; to perplex; to cause to stop by embarrassment.

not political. Opposite of political.

Not porous; especially, not having vessels that appear as pores; as, nonporous wood. Opposite of porous.

not pregnant; as, a drug approved only for use in nonpregnant females. Opposite of pregnant.

not prehensile; as, cats have a nonprehensile tail. Opposite of prehensile.

Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.

able to be sold legally without a doctor's prescription; over-the-counter; -- of medicinal drugs; as, Aspirin is a nonprescription antiinflammatory drug. Opposite of prescription.

Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.

A failure to produce or exhibit.

not directly productive; as, nonproductive labor.

Not belonging to a profession.

Want of proficiency; failure to make progress.