ALL meanings of not
not
N n - abbreviation NOT negation 1
- adverb not denial 1
- adverb not refusal 1
- interjection not ironic denial 1
- noun Technical meaning of not (logic) The Boolean function which is true only if its input is false. Its truth table is: A | NOT A --+------ F | T T | F (1996-11-04) 1
- adverb not (used to express negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition): You must not do that. It's not far from here. 1
- adverb not U.S. Slang. (used jocularly as a postpositive interjection to indicate that a previous statement is untrue): I just love working overtime without pay. Not! 1
- idioms not not so much, Informal. (an expression of dismissive scorn, ambivalence, or skepticism): Attractive? Yes. Smart? Not so much. Is the world coming to an end? Yeah, not so much. 1
- noun not a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive. 1
- noun not Used with an auxiliary verb or “ be ” to form the negative. 1
- adverb not You use not with verbs to form negative statements. 0
- adverb not You use not to form questions to which you expect the answer 'yes'. 0
- adverb not You use not, usually in the form n't, in questions which imply that someone should have done something, or to express surprise that something is not the case. 0
- adverb not You use not, usually in the form n't, in question tags after a positive statement. 0
- adverb not You use not, usually in the form n't, in polite suggestions. 0
- adverb not You use not to represent the negative of a word, group, or clause that has just been used. 0
- adverb not You can use not in front of 'all' or 'every' when you want to say something that applies only to some members of the group that you are talking about. 0
- adverb not If something is not always the case, you mean that sometimes it is the case and sometimes it is not. 0
- adverb not You can use not or not even in front of 'a' or 'one' to emphasize that there is none at all of what is being mentioned. 0
- adverb not You can use not in front of a word referring to a distance, length of time, or other amount to say that the actual distance, time, or amount is less than the one mentioned. 0
- adverb not You use not when you are contrasting something that is true with something that is untrue. You use this especially to indicate that people might think that the untrue statement is true. 0
- phrase not You use not that to introduce a negative clause that contradicts something that the previous statement implies. 0
- convention not Not at all is an emphatic way of saying 'No' or of agreeing that the answer to a question is 'No'. 0
- convention not Not at all is a polite way of acknowledging a person's thanks. 0
- adverb not used to negate the sentence, phrase, or word that it modifies 0
- adverb not (in combination) 0
- sentence substitute not used to indicate denial, negation, or refusal 0
- adverb not in no manner; to no degree 0