not

adv

1. (not-comparable)Negates the meaning of the modified verb.

   “Did you take out the trash? — No, I did not. I do not think it was my turn, was it?”

   “Not knowing any better, I went ahead.”

   “It was felt desirable that she not leave school before fourteen.”

   “I'd rather MoM (did) not stay, cuz the best thing about a holiday is not working.”

   “Not a day passes when I don't regret not having enrolled in medicine.”

2. (not-comparable)To no degree.

   “That is not red; it's green.”

   “It's not you, it's me.”

   “Expectation: Everybody in the family has to love everybody else. Reaction: Not the ghost of Christmas past, present, or future could pull this one off unless feeling is already there.”

3. (not-comparable)Used to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement.

   “That day was not the best day of my life. (meaning the day was bad or awful)”

   “It was not my favorite movie of all time. (meaning the speaker dislikes or strongly dislikes the movie)”

   “In the not too distant future my view on the matter might be not a million miles away from yours.”

   “I wonder if I shouldn't see a doctor - I've been feeling funny the last few days.”

4. (not-comparable)Used before a determiner phrase, a pronominal phrase etc. to convey a negative attitude (e.g. denial, sadness, anger) towards something.

   “Oh god, not that! Anything but that!”

   “Not another rainy day!”

5. (informal, ironic, not-comparable)Used before a non-finite clause (especially a gerund-participial clause) or less commonly a determiner phrase to ironically convey some attitude (e.g. surprise, incredulity, amusement, embarrassment) towards something.

   “Not me writing example sentences again.”

   “Not me crying by the end of that!! You are a brilliant, beautiful human who deserves no less than the world. Thank you for taking the time to watch unicorn store. It’s a film that means so much to me.”

   “[Keke] Palmer tells Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager to “mind y'all's business” when they ask about her relationship with [Darius] Jackson. ¶ “Not y’all trying to get into it! They trying it on the Today show,” Palmer joked when the subject was first brought up on Today With Hoda & Jenna.”

conj

1. And not.

   “I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.”

   “He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.”

   “We can't run this bar without her. Not and raise two kids.”

intj

1. (slang)Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.

   “Near-synonyms: I don't think; psych; bender (obsolete, UK)”

   “I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney … not!”

   “Sure, you’re perfect the way you are … not!”

   “You've got a swell chance to make this [baseball] team, you have, not! Third base is my job, Freshie. Why, you tow-head, you couldn't play marbles. You butter-finger, can't you stop anything?”

   “"See?" "Uh-huh! Clear and lucid to the point of limpidity - 'not."”

noun

1. An instance of using the word “not”; a negation or denial.

   “The children are taught to be afraid of winter, of war, of death, of hard times, of disease, of examinations. Perhaps that is one of the reasons that children so seldom find the conversation of their elders uplifting. It is full of don’ts, buts and nots.”

2. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of NOT (“unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true”).
3. A unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true.

   “Notice that the NOT symbol is simply a BUF symbol followed by a bubble. The bubble represents logical inversion and is the actual NOT gate. Anytime you see a bubble attached to a gate pin, you can detach it from the pin and insert a separate NOT gate in its place without affecting the resulting logic.”

name

1. (Egyptian, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Nut.