noun

• A person regarded as nonexistent or unimportant, or as having no rights; an ignored or forgotten person.

  Compare with unperson

  ‘these players were famous within their own communities, but nonpersons outside them’

  More example sentences

  • ‘It was like I was a non-person and it left me feeling quite disgusted and upset.’
  • ‘Widows were considered burdens upon the community and family and they became non-persons.’
  • ‘They were not allowed to vote because they were considered sub-rational non-persons!’
  • ‘When that's gone, you start to feel like you're becoming a non-person.’
  • ‘That law allowed slave owners to kill their slaves, as the rights of life, liberty, and freedom do not extend to non-persons.’
  • ‘Newt Gingrich, who defined the Republican Party in the '90s, was a non-person at this convention.’
  • ‘Contemporary law classified married and under-aged women as non-persons, their identities being subsumed under that of their husband or father.’
  • ‘I have not talked to him and as far as I'm concerned he is a non-person.’
  • ‘They arrived, if they did arrive, utterly separated from their homelands and families, non-persons who were to be useful only for their work.’
  • ‘Trotsky had been declared a non-person and left radicalism had experienced a macabre renaissance in the form of the so-called Third Period of class struggle propagated by the Stalinist-dominated Comintern since 1928.’
  • ‘The 16 year old was a non-person to Ken; simply an arguing point.’
  • ‘But to Steve, he was apparently invisible, a non-person of the high school world.’
  • ‘The student becomes a non-person in the group and either has to find a new organization or gives up aikido altogether.’
  • ‘Although the case was dismissed, deprived of passport, he became a non-person.’
  • ‘Rumfoord didn't take him seriously, since he considered him a non-person better off dead.’

  Synonyms

  insignificant person, nobody, nonentity, non-person, gnat, insect, cipher, pygmy