from nowhere

1. 1.

   without warning

   “your cousin arrived out of thin air”

   Synonymsout of thin airout of nothing

Questions about from nowhere

What does from nowhere mean?

from nowhere means "without warning".

What is another word for from nowhere?

Close synonyms include out of thin air, out of nothing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is from nowhere a common word?

from nowhere is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.