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.

The doctrines, or action, of the Nonjurors.

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.

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.

Not proficient.

One who has failed to become proficient.

not reciprocating.

not produced by genetic recombination.

involving gainful employment in something often done as a hobby; as, nonrecreational footbal.

Not recurring.

Nonrecurrent; as, the costs of a layoff are considered as a nonrecurring expense.

not capable of total reflection of light; not polished or shiny; as, It is complicated to create realistic shading effects on nonreflecting surfaces.

Want of due regard; disregard; slight.

A master of arts whose regency has ceased. See Regent.

The act of failing to meet a financial obligation.

Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due.

That can not be renewed; as, a nonrenewable option; books on that shelf are nonrenewable. Opposite of renewable.

not intended to realistically represent a physical object; -- of visual art work. Opposite of representational.

Not standing for something else. Opposite of representative.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

The state or condition of being nonresident,

A nonresident person; one who does not reside in the State or jurisdiction.

Not rebounding with the normal or expected velocity.

The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.

One who maintains that no resistance should be made to constituted authority, even when unjustly or oppressively exercised; one who advocates or practices absolute submission.

Not making resistance.

not able to be drawn into the main body; -- of claws and other extensile parts of animals or objects; as, a bear's claws, unlike a cat's, are nonretractile. Opposite of retractile.

That may not be returned for a refund; -- of purchased goods, or containers for purchased items; as, nonreturnable bottles. Opposite of returnable.

Not reversible or capable of having either side out; -- used mostly of clothing. Opposite of reversible.

not rhythmic.

Not rigid; especially, designating an airship having a shape maintained only by internal gas pressure and without a supporting structure. Opposite of rigid.

Not ruminating; as, a nonruminant animal.

Unsound; not perfect; as, a person of nonsane memory.

not restricted to one sect or school or party; as, religious training in a nonsectarian atmosphere; public funding is restricted to nonsectarian colleges. Opposite of sectarian.

integrated. Opposite of segregated.

That which is not oneself.

That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity.

Without sense; unmeaning; absurd; foolish; irrational; preposterous.

Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.