nobodies

nounperson of little importance
noununimportant person

Synonyms for nobodies

noun person of little importance

Antonyms for nobodies

somebody

Word Origin & History

mid-14c., no body "no person noone," from Middle English no (adj.) "not any" + bodi (see body (n.)). Written as two words 14c.-18c.; hyphenated 17c.-18c. Incorrect use with their is attested from 1540s. Meaning "person of no importance" is from 1580s.

Example Sentences for nobodies

A lot of nobodies occupied with nothing—and talking about it!

Froude and I were nobodies; with no characters to lose, and no antecedents to fetter us.

It's the nobodies that have all the fun—real heroes don't count!

Nobles and nobodies, beauties and blacklegs, dispersed in all directions.

But the Nobodies are light-minded, casual, and good-hearted.

We can easily see that you are bad people, brigands, nobodies, and liars.

Nobodies must know that I have my leetle place to hide here.

But in London they are nobodies; consequently to London they do not go.

They will be Nobodies where they are; they can be Somebodies in building up a new society.

Do you think it is agreeable to me to be the progenitor of a race of nobodies?