nowhere
/ˈnəʊwɛː
/adverb
Not in or to any place; not anywhere: plants and animals found nowhere else in the world the constable was nowhere to be seen...
- You could be living anywhere or nowhere and not at the end of a very sick River Murray.
- Even people who usually have three or four parties to go to were invited nowhere or purposely decided to stay in.
- With nowhere left to run, Massood's margin for error is very thin.
pronoun
1No place: there was nowhere for her to sit there’s nowhere better to experience the wonders of the Pyrenees...
- Her own students and other children in the area had nowhere to gain ensemble experience and it was too far to travel to Sydney so she began her own local string group.
- Experience shows that nowhere is too small to host activities against the war.
- Otherwise we will suffer a similar a fate to that experienced by the boatpeople - adrift, unwanted and with nowhere to call home.
2A place that is remote, uninteresting, or nondescript: a stretch of road between nowhere and nowhere...
- Cameron stood on the porch, looking out into nowhere, feeling particularly cowardly and ineffectual.
- Far behind them, a cold, dead planet spun through space on a straight line path that led from nowhere to nowhere among the stars.
- Nothing leads to nothing, Nowhere stretches to nowhere.
adjective [attributive] informal
Having no prospect of progress or success: a nowhere job...
- To give a very small example of a loose end that bothered me, what does Seb mean when he says ‘you worked the nowhere vases’?
- Home was often a nowhere place, and identities were confused and reliant on legislation and mediation.
- It's in some pound in the middle of industrial hell nowhere zone, miles away, and it's going to cost £190 to get it back.
Phrases
be (or come) nowhere
from (or out of) nowhere
get (or go) nowhere
get someone nowhere
lead nowhere
the middle of nowhere
nowhere near
a road to nowhere
Origin
Old English nāhwǣr (see no, where).