not

Meaning

Adv

1. (not-comparable) Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
2. (not-comparable) To no degree.
3. (not-comparable) Used to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement.
4. (not-comparable) Used before a determiner phrase, a pronominal phrase etc. to convey a negative attitude (e.g. denial, sadness, anger) towards something.
5. (informal, ironic, not-comparable) Used before a non-finite clause (especially a gerund-participial clause) or less commonly a determiner phrase to ironically convey some attitude (e.g. surprise, incredulity, amusement, embarrassment) towards something.

Conj

And not.

Intj

Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.

Noun

1. An instance of using the word “not”; a negation or denial.
2. (alt-of) Alternative letter-case form of NOT (“unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true”).

Synonyms

no

🙅

none

negative

nothing

don’t

non-

non

nope

negative particle

never

do not

without

nay

prohibition

nor

doesn’t

have not

negation

won’t you

zero

must not

not available

not present

un-

negative prefix

na

even not

not also

like a hole in the head

like a hole in one’s head

don't

bare

ex

except

excluding

fail

in

inside

ne

necessarily

neither

not even

not yet

of necessity

sunset

there is not

un

unavoidably

yet

Translations

no

🚫

nicht

🚫

non

🚫

niet

🚫

não

🚫

değil

🚫

non

🚫

no

🙅

no

🙅

non

🙅

pas

ne

🚫

μη

nee

🙅

Pronounced as (IPA)

/nɒt/

Etymology

Cognate with Scots: nat

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: nit

Cognate with Western Frisian: net

Cognate with Dutch: niet

Cognate with German: nicht

In summary

From Middle English not, nat, variant of noght, naht (“not, nothing”), from Old English *nōht, nāht (“nought, nothing”), short for nōwiht, nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “not anything”), corresponding to ne (“not”) + ōwiht, āwiht (“anything”), corresponding to ā (“ever, always”) + wiht (“thing, creature”).
Cognate with Scots nat, naucht (“not”), Saterland Frisian nit (“not”), West Frisian net (“not”), Dutch niet (“not”), German nicht (“not”). Compare nought, naught and aught. More at no, wight, whit.

Sentences

Okay , there is not a lot to do at the moment .

Man could not conquer them .

She wanted to know why her name was not on the drawings of all the previous years .

Now he was here not with his flock , but with a shovel .

This algorithm is not galactic and is used in practice .

I'm not doing it for you !