OUT OF NOTHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does out of nothing mean? 

• OUT OF NOTHING (adverb)
  The adverb OUT OF NOTHING has 1 sense:

1. without warning

  Familiarity information: OUT OF NOTHING used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUT OF NOTHING (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Without warning

Synonyms:

from nowhere; out of nothing; out of thin air

Context example:

your cousin arrived out of thin air

 Context examples 

Further, he had an ideal, namely, of achieving that excellence of the perfect reporter who is able to make something—even a great deal—out of nothing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I raised him up out of nothing, right out of the gutter.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)