out of nothing

1. 1.

   without warning

   “your cousin arrived out of thin air”

   Synonymsout of thin airfrom nowhere

Questions about out of nothing

What does out of nothing mean?

out of nothing means "without warning".

What is another word for out of nothing?

Close synonyms include out of thin air, from nowhere. 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 out of nothing a common word?

out of nothing 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.