not
Meaning of not
adverb
- used with an auxiliary verb or ‘be’ to form the negative.
he would not say
she isn't there
didn't you tell me?
- used as a short substitute for a negative clause.
maybe I'll regret it, but I hope not
‘Don't you keep in touch?’ ‘I'm afraid not’
they wouldn't know if I was telling the truth or not
- used to express the negative of other words.
not a single attempt was made
treating the symptoms and not the cause
‘How was it?’ ‘Not so bad.’
- used in understatements to suggest that the opposite of a following word or phrase is true.
the not too distant future
not a million miles away
noun
a Boolean operator with only one variable that has the value one when the variable is zero and vice versa.
adjective
(of paper) not hot-pressed, and having a slightly textured surface.
Middle English: contraction of the adverb nought.
Information about not
- The plural form of not is: nots.
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Hyphenation of not
not
- It consists of 1 syllables and 3 chars.
- not is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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Words that rhyme with not
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