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nowhere (iou)



nowhere adverb, noun, pronoun, & adjective. OE.
[from NO adjective + WHERE.]
A. adverb.
In or to no place; not anywhere. OE.
nowhere near (modifying an adjective or noun) not nearly, not by a long way.
R. Frost I go nowhere on purpose: I happen by. W. Cooper Steve was nowhere to be seen. Time Nowhere in Europe have relations..become more acrimonious.
In no part or passage of a book etc.; in no work or author. ME.
J. Conrad The only really honest writing is to be found in newspapers and nowhere else. J. Kosinski Surprised that in so many papers..his name was nowhere mentioned.
In or to no situation of achievement, success, improvement, or development. Chiefly in phrs. below. M18.
be nowhere, come in nowhere be badly beaten (in a race, contest, etc.); be hopelessly distanced, be out of the running. get nowhere (a) verb phr. intrans. make no progress; (b) verb phr. trans. not assist (a person) to make progress. go nowhere (a) make no progress; (b) (of a sum of money etc.) be quickly spent, have little buying power.
b. noun & pronoun.
No place. In early use also, the mystical state or feeling of being nowhere. LME.
R. Ingalls There was nowhere for him to hide. J. N. Isbister Nowhere could quite compare..with Paris.
Somewhere remote or inaccessible, somewhere dull or nondescript, (freq. in the middle of nowhere); a place of this kind. L19.
W. McIlvanney Graithnock had become a kind of nowhere fixed in stone. P. Lively The landscape has an impersonality and uniformity that makes it a nowhere. B. Head We are in the middle of nowhere Most communication is by ox cart or sledge.
Somewhere unidentified or unknown, obscurity. Chiefly in phrs. below. E20.
from nowhere, out of nowhere unexpectedly or without warning from somewhere unknown or from obscurity, out of the blue.
C. adjective. Remote, inaccessible; insignificant, unsatisfactory, dull. Chiefly slang. L19.
Melody Maker The most nowhere record we'd made. A. Beattie He is so nowhere,..I can't even believe that Lloyd likes him.
Comb.: nowheresville US colloq. (a name for) a place or situation of no significance, promise, or interest.
nowhereness noun M19.
nowheres adverb (US dial.) = NOWHERE adverb L19.