Not (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

adverb
  1. (used to express negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition): You must not do that. It's not far from here.
  2. (used jocularly as a postpositive interjection to indicate that a previous statement is untrue): I just love working overtime without pay. Not!
Idioms
  1. (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.
noun
  1. a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
  1. variant of noto- before a vowel.
adverb
    • used to negate the sentence, phrase, or word that it modifies
    • (in combination)
  1. which is not to say or suppose that
sentence substitute
  1. used to indicate denial, negation, or refusal
combining form
  1. a variant of noto-
Not (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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