no-one
Not a soul
No-one is a variant spelling of no one, meaning not a single person: No-one answered the door.
The hyphenated form is less common than the two-word spelling and appears more frequently in British English.
It functions like nobody: No-one knows what happened.
Absence of substance
- vacancyUnoccupied space or position
- voidWithout legal effect
- nothingNot any thing
- nilNothing whatsoever
zero · blank · hollow · vacuum · nonexistence · nothingness · lack · dearth
Unimportant person or thing
- cipherHidden writing system
- unknownNot yet discovered
- namelessWithout any designation
- facelessLacking identity or features
anonymous · unimportant · insignificant · unremarkable · undistinguished · unrecognized · unnoticed · invisible
Without others present
- solitaryExisting alone, apart
- isolatedSeparated from others
- lonelyWanting companionship
- forlornSad and abandoned
forsaken · abandoned · desolate · bereft · estranged · alienated · disconnected · friendless
Shunned, rejected person
- pariahRejected, shunned person
- persona non grataOfficially unwelcome individual
- rejectedRefused or turned away
- shunnedPersistently avoided socially
ostracized · blackballed · banished · expelled · boycotted · excommunicated · marginalized · snubbed
emptiness
Absence of substance
nil · zero · blank · hollow · vacuum · nonexistence · nothingness · lack · dearth · not a soul
nonentity
Unimportant person or thing
faceless · anonymous · unimportant · insignificant · unremarkable · undistinguished · unrecognized · unnoticed · invisible · overlooked
alone
Without others present
forlorn · forsaken · abandoned · desolate · bereft · estranged · alienated · disconnected · friendless · companionless
outcast
Shunned, rejected person
- pariahRejected, shunned person
- persona non grataOfficially unwelcome individual
- rejectedRefused or turned away
shunned · ostracized · blackballed · banished · expelled · boycotted · excommunicated · marginalized · snubbed · overlooked