not

If you're struggling to spell the word not, you're not alone. Our page provides the correct spelling, definition, and etymology of this word, along with a variety of sample sentences, idioms, and proverbs featuring not.

This word consists of 3 letters and is spelled as "N-O-T". It has 1 vowel and 2 consonants.

How do you spell not

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not

adverb

How to pronunciation not: ˈnät

What does Not Mean?

What does not meaning in English

1. The particle of negation, or refusal. If thou be the world’s great parent, How falls it then that with thy furious fervour Thou dost afflict as well the not deserver, As him that doth thy lovely hests despise? Spenser. His countenance likes me not. Shakesp. K. Lear. The man held his peace, to wit whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not. Gen. xxiv. 2
2. Let each man do as to his fancy seems; I wait, not I, ’till you have better dreams. Dryden. This objection hinders not but that the heroic action enterprised for the Christian cause, and executed happily, may be as well executed now as it was of old. Dryden. Grammar being to teach men not to speak, but to speak correctly: where rhetoric is not necessary, grammar may be spared. Locke. on Education. This day, be bread and peace my lot; All else beneath the sun Thou know’st if best bestow’d or not, And let thy will be done. Pope’s Universal Prayer.
   
3. It denotes cessation or extinction. No more. Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. Job vii. 8.

Other definitions for not

The definition of 'not' is: —used as a function word to make negative a group of words or a word

How to spell not

Want to know how to spell not, you will find a comprehensive answer on this topic. The word "not consists of 1 syllables and is spelled "ˈnät".

Synonyms for not:

There are synonyms for not'. Depending on the situation and context, the following words are also often used instead of not:

nevermore, infrequently, little, rarely, seldom, ne'er, never

Some words similar to "not"

• notionality
• sidenote
• banknotes
• knotted
• woodnote
• endnote
• trueloveknot
• keynote
• notifying
• notwendige

The word "not" in works of art

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.

The Brothers Karamazov / Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is nothing so bad but it might have been worse.

The Rivals / Richard Brinsley Sheridan

As a child, Cora would have scorned his talk of the fantastic. She would have said that slavers stole only black bodies, and that the African continent was a fecund space of magic and wisdom, of which the men on the ships and the men on the blocks knew nothing.

Colson Whitehead / The Underground Railroad

To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles.

Hamlet / William Shakespeare

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

The Crucible / Arthur Miller

To do nothing is often the best course of action, but I know from personal experience how frustrating it can be.

The Crown / Peter Morgan

You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead - your next stop, the Twilight Zone!

The Twilight Zone / Rod Serling

We're going to get you. We're going to get you. Not another peep. Time to go to sleep.

The Evil Dead / Sam Raimi

The plague is not in you or in me. Nor is it in the soil, in the air, in the water. But it is a subtle thing, and it creeps in.

The Plague / Albert Camus

That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it.

Donna Tartt / The Goldfinch

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How many points in scrabble for not

How many points is the word "not" in Scrabble? Is "not" a Scrabble word? Here is the letter-by-letter scoring of the Scrabble game, which is played all over the world in different languages and with different words.

The total scrabble score for the word not is 3

Origins of English disease names

Additionally, geographical locations have also played a role in naming diseases. Lyme disease, for instance, takes its name from the town of Lyme, Connecticut, where it was first identified in 1975. This tick-borne illness is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and can lead to various symptoms, including fever, fatigue, and skin rashes. Naming diseases after their geographical origins not only helps in identifying the source of the outbreak but also serves as a reminder of the local context in which the disease emerged.