How to pronounce “not”

Meaning

• [Adverb]
• Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
• To no degree.
• (litotes) Used to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement.
• Used before a determiner phrase, a pronominal phrase etc. to convey a negative attitude (e.g. denial, sadness, anger) towards something.
• (ironic, informal, originally African-American Vernacular) 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. [attested since the late 2000s, popularized around 2020][1][2]
• [Conjunction]
• And not.
• [Interjection]
• (slang) Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically. [chiefly 1990s]
• [Noun]
• An instance of using the word “not”; a negation or denial.
• Alternative letter-case form of NOT (“unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true”).

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Similar Sounds

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