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not
1[ not ]
adverb
- (used to express negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition):
You must not do that. It's not far from here.
- 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!
NOT
2[ not ]
noun
- a Boolean operator that returns a positive result if its operand is negative and a negative result if its operand is positive.
not-
3- variant of noto- before a vowel.
not
1/ ɒ /
adverb
- used to negate the sentence, phrase, or word that it modifies
I will not stand for it
- ( in combination )
they cannot go
- not thatconjunction which is not to say or suppose that Also (archaic)not but what
I expect to lose the game — not that I mind
sentence substitute
- used to indicate denial, negation, or refusal
certainly not
not-
2combining_form
- a variant of noto-
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of not1
Idioms and Phrases
- 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.
More idioms and phrases containing not
- all that glitters is not gold
- (not) all there
- (not) at all
- believe it or not
- caught dead, not be
- (not a) Chinaman's chance
- coming or going, not know if
- do as I say (not as I do)
- game is not worth the candle
- heart (not) in it
- hold one's breath, not
- (not) in the least
- (not) in the mood
- it's (not) your funeral
- last but not least
- like as not
- living soul, not a
- mince matters, not to
- more often than not
- (not) move a muscle
- no problem (not to worry)
- (not to) sneeze at
- (not) take no for an answer
- (not) the half of it
- (not) turn a hair
- two wrongs do not make a right
- waste not, want not
- whether or not
- without a (not a) leg to stand on
- won't (will not) hear of
- can't
- couldn't
- wouldn't
Example Sentences
Cloobeck, who has applied for a federal trademark of the phrase “I am a proven problem solver,” texted the federal lawsuit to Villaraigosa late Tuesday, though the former mayor has not been served yet.
In a contempt order issued Wednesday, Judge Gonzalez Rogers found that Apple nevertheless continued to interfere with competition with attempts that the court stated "will not be tolerated".
Ms Patterson, 50, has pleaded not guilty and her defence team says she "panicked" after unintentionally serving poison to family members she loved.
Because the company and its lawyers did not correct Roman’s testimony, “Apple will be held to have adopted the lies and misrepresentations to this court,” the judge wrote.
It might not exist — but it’s the reach for perfection that gives the classic cocktail its lasting mystique.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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