inexistant

English

Etymology

Compare French inexistant. See inexistent.

Adjective

inexistant (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) nonexistent; that does not exist

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inexistant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

in- +‎ existant

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.nɛɡ.zis.tɑ̃/

Adjective

inexistant (feminine inexistante, masculine plural inexistants, feminine plural inexistantes)

1. not existing; nonexistent

Further reading

• “inexistant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Synonyms

• nonexistent
• nonexisting

Antonyms

• existent
• existing