Nay
Meaning of Nay
adverb
- or rather (used to emphasize a more appropriate word than one just used).
permission to build the superstore will take months, nay years
- no.
nay, I must not think thus
- a negative answer.
the cabinet sits to give the final yea or nay to policies
Middle English (in nay (sense 2 of the adverb)): from Old Norse nei, from ne ‘not’ + ei ‘ever’ (compare with aye2).
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Hyphenation of Nay
Nay
- It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
- Nay is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Nay synonyms
Meaning as the truth or facts of a situation; really:
Anagrams of Nay
Words that rhyme with Nay
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