nothingburger
Meanings
Plural: nothingburgers
Noun
- An unimportant person; a nobody, a nonentity.
- Something of less importance than its treatment suggests; also, something which is bland or unremarkable in appearance or impact.
- A matter of no concern, especially one that had been of concern; A non-issue.
Adj
- Of less importance than its treatment suggests; insignificant, unimportant; also, bland or unremarkable in appearance or impact.
Origin / Etymology
The noun is derived from nothing (pronoun, noun) + -burger (suffix forming names of hamburgers served in buns with the addition of specified foodstuffs, or with foodstuffs in place of the usual meat), a metaphorical reference to a burger missing a patty—its most significant component. The word was apparently coined by the American gossip columnist Louella Parsons (1881–1972) in her widely syndicated daily column “Louella’s Move-Go-’Round” of June 1, 1953: see the quotation.
The adjective is derived from the noun.
Synonyms
absolute zero, also-ran, bag of shells, bagatelle, base, bric-a-brac, chopped liver, cipher, contemptible, crumb, dicky, dicky-bird, fico, fig, flyspeck, foolish, for the birds, frivolous, futile, idle, ignorable, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, Joe Nobody, like a fart in a windstorm, little guy, meager, mean, minnow, minor, minuity, nebbish, negligible, niff-naff, no one, nobody, nondescript, nonentity, nothing, nothing sandwich, nothingburger, paltry, peon, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddly, pip-squeak, pissant, pitiful, pleb, pointless, prole, puny, quidam, rinky-dink, scuddick, shrimp, silly, simple, slight, sop, tin-pot, toy, trick, trifle, trifling, trivial, triviality, two-bit, unimportant, unthing, unweighty, vain, wankstain, whiffle, white chip, worthless, wretched, zero, zilch
Antonyms
ignorable, inconsequential, insignificant, little guy, minor, negligible, nonentity, peasant, peon, pleb, plebe, prole, remarkable, shrimp, significant, somethingburger, trivial, unimportant, unremarkable, worthless person
Scrabble Score: 0
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