non-existent
/nɒnɪɡˈzɪst(ə)nt
/adjective
Not existing or not real or present: she pretended to tie a non-existent shoelace...
- If you invent a non-existent problem, you can always manufacture an unnecessary solution.
- For one, he's supposedly been caught boasting about non-existent software before.
- Sycophants tend to lavish non-existent virtues on their leader, who may only be a novice.
Synonyms
imaginary, imagined, unreal, fictional, fictitious, made up, invented, hypothetical, suppositional, fancied, fanciful;
fantastic, fantasy, mythical, mythological, legendary;
illusory, illusive, hallucinatory, chimerical, figmental, notional, shadowy, spectral, ghostly, insubstantial;
missing, absent
rare phantasmal, phantasmic
inexistent, illusionary, unsubstantial