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Definition: Not |
NotAdverb1. Negation of a word or group of words; "he does not speak French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not many"; "not much"; "not at all". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "not" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | NOT |
Literature | Not in riding and driving. "Up a hill hurry not, Down a hill flurry not, On level ground spare him not." On a Milestone in Yorkshire (near Richmond). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Math | Negation: NOT 0 = 1, NOT 1 = 0. Also known as complement. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Never, Not. The word never is sometimes colloquially used for not, as "I never remember to have seen Lincoln." Say "I do not remember," etc. Never should not be used in reference to events that can take place but once, as "Warren never died at Lexington." Usage: No, Not. "I cannot tell whether he will come or no." "Whether he be a sinner or no I know not." In such cases not should be used instead of no. Usage: Not, Hardly. "I cannot stop to tell you hardly any of the adventures that befell Theseus." Change cannot to can. "I have not had a moment's time to read hardly since I left school." Say, "I have hardly a moment's time," etc. Usage: Not, no. "I pray you bear with me; I cannot go no further," says Shakespeare. "I can go no further," or "I cannot go any further," will make the sentence correct. Usage: Nor, not. "I never did repent for doing good, nor shall not now." "We need not, nor do not, confine the purposes of God." "Which do not continue, nor are not binding." "For my part I love him not, nor hate him not." In these sentences, change nor to and. CHAPTER XVI Accordance of Verb with Subject No rule of grammar is more familiar to the schoolboy than that which relates to the agreement of the verb with its subject, or nominative, and none that is more frequently violated. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that the schoolboy is the only transgressor. Ladies and gentlemen of culture and refinement, writers and speakers of experience and renown, have alike been caught in the quicksands of verb constructions. "This painting is one of the finest masterpieces that ever was given to the world." A transposition of the sentence will show that the verb should be were, and not was. "Of the finest masterpieces that ever were given to the world, this painting is one." "His essay on 'Capital and Labor' is one of the best that has ever been written on the subject." The verb should be have. "The steamer, with all her passengers and crew, were lost." The subject is steamer, and the verb should be was. Usage: Each, Every, No, Not. When two or more nominatives are qualified by one of the foregoing words the verb must be singular. "Every limb and feature appears with its respective grace."-- Steele. "Not a bird, not a beast, not a tree, not a shrub were to be seen." Use was instead of were. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Negation, in its most basic sense, changes the truth value of a statement to its opposite. It is an operation needed chiefly in logic, mathematics, and grammar.
In logic
In logic, logical negation is a unary logical operator that reverses the truth value of its operand.
The negation of the statement p is written in various ways:
It is read as "It is not the case that p", or simply "not p".
- p (which is p with a bar over it);
- ~p;
- ¬p;
- NOT p;
- !p
~p is true if and only if p is false. For instance, if p denotes the statement "today is Saturday", then its negation ~p is the statement "today is not Saturday".
In classical logic, double negation means affirmation; i.e., the statements p and ~(~p) are logically equivalent. In intuitionistic logic, however, ~~p is a weaker statement than p. Nevertheless, ~~~p and ~p are logically equivalent even intuitionistically.
Logical negation can be defined in terms of other logical operations. For example, ~p can be defined as p → F, where → is material implication and F is absolute falsehood. Conversely, one can define F as p & ~p for any proposition p, where & is logical conjunction. The idea here is that any contradiction is false. While these ideas work in both classical and intuitionistic logic, they don't work in Brazilian logic, where contradictions are not necessarily false. But in classical logic, we get a further identity: p → q can be defined as ~p ∨ q, where ∨ is logical disjunction.
Algebraically, logical negation corresponds to the complement in a Boolean algebra (for classical logic) or a Heyting algebra (for intuitionistic logic).
In grammar
In grammar, negation is the process that turns an affirmative statement (I am the walrus) into its opposite denial (I am not the walrus). Nouns as well as verbs can be grammatically negated, by the use of a negative adjective (There is no walrus here.) or a negative pronoun (Nobody I know has a walrus.)
In English, negation for most verbs other than be and have, or verb phrases in which be, have or do already occur, requires the recasting of the sentence using the dummy auxiliary verb do, which adds little to the meaning of the negative phrase, but serves as a place to attach the negative particles not, or its contracted form -n't, to:
In Middle English, the particle not could be attached to any verb:
- I have a walrus.
- I haven't a walrus. (rare, but it is still possible to negate have without the auxiliary do.)
- I don't have a walrus. (the most common way in contemporary English.)
In Modern English, these forms fell out of use, and the use of an auxiliary such as do or be is obligatory in most cases:
- I see not the walrus.
Curiously, the verb do requires a second instance of itself in order to be marked for negation:
- I do not see the walrus.
In English, as in most other Germanic languages, the use of double negatives as grammatical intensifiers was formerly in frequent use:
- The walrus doesn't do tricks but not *The walrus doesn't tricks.
Usage prescriptivists consider this use of double negatives to be a solecism, and condemn it. It makes the rhetorical figure of litotes ambiguous. It remains common in colloquial English.
- We don't have no walruses here.
Other languages have simpler forms of negation; in Latin, simple negation is a matter of adding the negative particles non or ne to the verb. In French, the most basic form of verb negation involves adding the circumflexion ne . . . pas to the main verb or its auxiliary; je meurs ("I die."); je ne meurs pas ("I do not die.")
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Negation."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
NOT | English | Nordic Optical Telescope | Geography |
| NO | English | Not obtainable | Computing, Post & Telecom |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Negation | Adverb: no, nay, not, nowise; not a bit, not a whit, not a jot; not at all, nohow, not in the least, not so; negative, negatory; no way; no such thing; nothing of the kind, nothing of the sort; quite the contrary, tout au contraire, far from it; tant s'en faut; on no account, in no respect; by no, by no manner of means; negatively. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Should we, or should we not follow the advice of the galactically stupid (A Few Good Men; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin) Not even manually (American Pie; writing credit: Adam Herz) Hell, I am Mother Nature, and the time has come for plants to take back the world so rightfully ours! 'cause it's not nice to fool with Mother Nature (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) I need a father who's a role model, not some horny geek-boy who's gonna spray his shorts every time I bring a girlfriend home from school (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) I'm not. (Indecent Proposal; writing credit: Amy Holden Jones) | |
Lyrics | If you’re not for me then why does this distance maim my life (If You're Not The One; performing artist: DANIEL BEDINGFIELD) And I could not ask for more (I Could Not Ask for More; performing artist: Edwin McCain) When your out in the club, don't think I'm not (Don't Think I'm Not; performing artist: Kandi) But I'd not want if I were smart (Want Not Want Not; performing artist: The Roches) Mama told me not to come (Mama Told Me (Not to Come); performing artist: Three Dog Night) | |
Clever | Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it. (references; author: Mark Twain) I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens. (references; author: Woody Allen) Guests should not forget to go home. (references; author: Swedish Proverb) Examine what is said, not him who speaks. (references; author: Arabian Proverb) Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead. (references; author: Chinese Proverb) | |
Tongue Twisters | Surely Sylvia swims!" shrieked Sammy, surprised. "Someone should show Sylvia some strokes so she shall not sink. (references; author: unknown) I need not your needles, they're needless to me; for kneading of noodles, 'twere needless, you see; but did my neat knickers but need to be kneed, I then should have need of your needles indeed. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | I Love You Not I Love You (1974) I'm Not One of 'Em (1974) The Lady's Not for Burning (1974) In Gefahr und größter Not bringt der Mittelweg den Tod (1974) Love Not War (1974) | |
Song Titles | We're Not The Jet Set (performing artist: George Jones/ Tammy Wynette) Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming (lp cut) (performing artist: Jermaine Jackson) Theme From "Greatest American Hero" (Believe It Or Not) (performing artist: Joey Scarbury) IT'S NOT FOR ME TO SAY (performing artist: Johnny Mathis ) Why Not Me (performing artist: Judds) | |
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 | A 10 year-old white girl is pictured here with her father in a swimming pool. She was diagnosed at age three with a form of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL) that did not respond to therapy. She is presently in long-term remission after an experimental bone marrow transplant was performed. She now suffers from chronic GVH (Graft Versus Host Disease) which is rare. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | This abnormal mammogram is not necessarily cancerous. Also seen are calcifications through ductal patterns. Patient would be avised to have follow-up at 3-month intervals. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | If a basal tuft is not present, the genus is Culex. In this genus, one will note the presence of a row of tufts or scattered hairs occurring along each side of the siphon. Credit: CDC. |  | The CDC moved its location to Clifton Road after construction was completed in 1960. In 1947, Emory University donated the land on Clifton Road for the new CDC headquarters, but construction did not begin for more than a decade. Credit: CDC. |
 | Greenland Not So Green. Credit: NASA. |  | The colorful "zigzag" on the right is not the work of a flamboyant artist, but the signature ... Credit: NASA. |
 | View over the nominal position of New Zealand from Galileo. (New Zealand, however, is not visible in the image as it is beneath the clouds.). Credit: NASA. |  | Full view of the Earth, taken byGOES-8(Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) on 2 September 1994at 18:00 UT. The red and green channels represent visible data, while theblue channel represents inverted 11 micron infrared data.The north and south poles were were not actually observed by GOES-8. Toproduce this image, poles were taken from a GOES-7 image. Credit: NASA. |
 | Helicopter transport for scientists during seal tagging operations A not pleased bearded seal pup - Erignathus barbatus - restrained for tagging. Lieutenant Commander Bill Turnbull on left, Budd Christman on right. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals). |  | Geometry of first microwave navigation system tested by C&GS Converted range readings to lines of equal angles between stations Used for high-accuracy inshore work After testing, determined not sufficiently accurate for large-scale surveys Tested on SOSBEE. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "You're not right" by Keely Singer Commentary: "I couldn't resist sharing this; i told him to get "comfortable with the camera."." | "Do not disturb" by Jan Tautenhahn Commentary: "Not disturbing advice at a door in a hotel." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Nearly; not quite; slightly short of; missed; almost; just about; nigh; virtually. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Industry need not wish. |
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney | No; no; not a sixpence. |
Francis Bacon | Age will not be defied. |
George Herbert | Spend not on hopes. |
John Bright | Force is not a remedy. |
Marcus T. Cicero | A letter does not blush. |
Pindar | Do not peer too far. |
Tertullian | Truth does not blush. |
Walter Savage Landor | Consult duty not events. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | Common pleas shall not follow our court, but shall be held in some fixed place. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | To which I answer, Not so. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. (reference) |
US Constitution | 1791 | The small superior figures preceding the paragraphs designate Clauses, and were not in the original and have no reference to footnotes. (reference) |
US Bill of Rights | 1795 | Amendment VIII. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1992 | And if the House of Representatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President, as in case of the death or other constitutional disability of the President. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | This is true, yet the jurisdiction must be appellate, not original. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | We cannot take from them what they have not got. (reference) |
The Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 | "That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States." (Abraham Lincoln) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us--that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion--that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth. (The Gettysburg Address) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
The Wisdom of the Sands | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it. |
Emma | Austen, Jane | Though I think he had better not have married |
A Grief Observed | C.S. Lewis | Sorrow however turns out to be not a state but a process |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | Which Alice did not venture to deny |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes |
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | Douglas Adams | Well, no, not married as such, but yes, there is a specific girl that I'm not married to. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The reason is not far to seek |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The horse had his thighs broken, and could not stir |
The Fellowship of the Ring | J.R.R. Tolkien | All that is gold does not glitter, Not all who wander are lost |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden | But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Do not feed raccoons. (references) | |
The cause is not known. (references) | ||
Do not defecate outdoors. (references) | ||
Business | Dividends are not taxed. (references) | |
These two are not synonymous. (references) | ||
VSAT sites are not available. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | Trokosi may or may not attend school. (references) |
Namibia | Many San children do not attend school. (references) | |
Belgium | Child prostitution is a problem but is not widespread. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | The trial had not begun by year's end. (references) |
China | At year's end he had not been sentenced. (references) | |
Korea | Genuine religious freedom does not exist. (references) | |
Discrimination | Uganda | Race was not a factor in national politics. (references) |
Brazil | The others had not yet been tried at year's end. (references) | |
Romania | The two houses had not reconciled their versions by year's end. (references) | |
Economic History | Zambia | Wages are not controlled. (references) |
Costa Rica | The jury system is not used. (references) | |
Jordan | Jordan does not produce rice. (references) | |
Human Rights | Sweden | Bail does not exist. (references) |
Nicaragua | Exile is not practiced. (references) | |
Haiti | Bail hearings are not automatic. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | A verdict on the case had not been announced by year's end. (references) |
Gabon | The Pygmies did not have adequate access to public services. (references) | |
Guatemala | Many indigenous people are illiterate or do not speak Spanish. (references) | |
Minorities | Botswana | Urban neighborhoods are not ethnically segregated. (references) |
India | Devadasis, who generally are Dalits, may not marry. (references) | |
Ethiopia | Construction at the site had not resumed by year's end. (references) | |
Political Economy | PHILIPPINES | Achieving that goal will not be easy. (references) |
Haiti | Most parties are not well structured. (references) | |
POLAND | The new regulations are not retroactive. (references) | |
Political Rights | Latvia | The case had not been heard by year's end. (references) |
Singapore | The PAP does not suffer from this disadvantage. (references) | |
Mali | The referendum was not rescheduled by year's end. (references) | |
Trade | Uruguay | The BCU is not independent. (references) |
Burma | The kyat is not convertible. (references) | |
Lebanon | Hebrew labels are not accepted. (references) | |
Travel | Egypt | Tap water is not potable. (references) |
Azerbaijan | Taxis do not have meters. (references) | |
Mexico | If accosted, DO NOT RESIST. (references) | |
Women | Malta | Divorce is not legal. (references) |
Pakistan | Marital rape is not a crime. (references) | |
Congo | Polygyny is legal; polyandry is not. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Uganda | Building codes often are not enforced. (references) |
Lebanon | Forced labor is not prohibited by law. (references) | |
Denmark | Export industries do not use child labor. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is Porcus Rockefelleri. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
David Berkowitz | Not a lot. Once in a while some people come up. I have a number of friends from the area who come by and visit. |
Dennis Miller | For most law-abiding citizens, Big Brother is not watching us. |
Gerald Ford | Some call me an elder statesman. I don't know. I don't mind telling you that I'm not ready to quit yet! |
Heather Mills McCartney | Or any boyfriends before that. Every guy I've been out with has asked me to marry them within a week, so, not at all. |
Linda Thompson | Met Priscilla. But only a couple of times. Priscilla was really not on the scene as much as people might assume. |
Naomi Campbell | Liquor. That just makes me feel everything but my real self. It makes me not give my true emotions, so. |
Rush Limbaugh | You're not responsible for global warming. |
Sylvia Browne | Nothing wrong with saying that. I think the more honest we are with children, the better because kids are not stupid. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Physically speaking, we can not separate. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | First steps toward that end should not longer be delayed. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Labor sweats to create--and turns out devices to level not only mountains but also cities. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Wishing it, predicting it, even asking for it, will not make it so. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Tonight I do not tell you that the war in Vietnam is the war to end wars. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Excellence does not begin in Washington. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Time will not be Saddam's salvation. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | It's ambitious and achievable, but it's not enough. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Civility is not a tactic or a sentiment. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Not" is generally used as a negative partical "not" or "n't" -- approximately 99.94% of the time. "Not" is used about 462,287 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Negative Partical "Not" or "n't" | 99.94% | 461,996 | 22 |
| Adverb (general) | 0.06% | 281 | 17,410 |
| Total | 100.00% | 462,287 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "not". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Lo-ammi | N/A | Biblical | Not my people |
| Lo-ruhamah | N/A | Biblical | Not pitied |
| Lo-ruhamah | N/A | Biblical | Not having obtained mercy |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "not": a full stomach does not know what hunger is ♦ absolutely not ♦ all is not gold that glitters ♦ all that glitters is not gold ♦ am not such a fool! ♦ among them but not of them ♦ and if not ♦ as like as not ♦ as likely as not ♦ as often as not ♦ as soon as not ♦ available but not needed capability ♦ be careful not to ♦ be not adapted to ♦ be not all there ♦ be not implicated in ♦ be not in agreement ♦ be not interested ♦ be not much of a conversationalist ♦ be not quite with it ♦ believe it or not ♦ call forwarding on mobile subscriber not reachable ♦ can not ♦ Can not choose but ♦ can not sleep ♦ capital commitments not provided for in the accounts ♦ certainly not ♦ defense not defiance ♦ definitely not ♦ disconnected not ready off ♦ do not ♦ do not be late! ♦ do not cram your writing so much! ♦ do not enter ♦ do not enter! ♦ do not judge people by appearances ♦ do not look at me like that ♦ do not meddle with my affairs ♦ do not meddle with that razor ♦ do not mention it! ♦ do not panic! ♦ do not reduce ♦ do not take any notice of! ♦ do not touch ♦ do not touch me! ♦ do not touch! ♦ do not try to put me in the wrong ♦ does not apply ♦ does not matter a farthing ♦ dog does not eat dog ♦ feel not well ♦ find not guilty ♦ forest land not regularly managed ♦ forget me not ♦ fry not cook ♦ had it not been that ♦ have not ♦ have not a moment to spare ♦ have not a patch on ♦ have not enough sleep ♦ he dared not go ♦ he did not turn a hair ♦ he does not care a straw ♦ he does not forget things easily ♦ he does not hear ♦ he does not know what is right from what is wrong ♦ he had not fired a round ♦ he is not a man to be trusted ♦ he is not a patch on ♦ he is not all there ♦ he is not at home ♦ he is not easy to get on with ♦ he is not in ♦ he is not in his right head ♦ he is not much of a singer ♦ he would not yield an inch ♦ he's not very nice ♦ i am not amused ♦ i am not concerned! ♦ i beg of you not to do that ♦ i believe not ♦ i could not care less ♦ i did not say so ♦ i do not care ♦ i do not feel well ♦ i do not know ♦ i do not know him from adam ♦ i do not mind ♦ i do not speak english ♦ i do not understand ♦ i have not even a ray of hope ♦ i have not the foggiest ♦ i have not the foggiest idea ♦ i have not the slightest idea ♦ i must not ♦ i need not ♦ i need not tell you that ♦ i was not a tool in their hands! ♦ i would not do it for the world ♦ if circumstances do not forbid it ♦ if i an not mistaken. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "not": not-a, not-all-that-stout, not-a-lot-happening, not-altogether, NOT-AND, Not-a-Number, not-at-home-department, not-be, not-beautiful, not-being, not-being-committed, not-bloody-likely, not-books, NOT-both, not-ceiling, not-cheap, not-committing, not-dissimilar, not-do, not-doable, NOT-EQUIP, not-especially-musical, not-every-day, not-exactly-stunning, not-exist, not-existing, Not-f, not-far-distant, Not-flaubert, not-floor, not-food, not-for-profit, not-for-sale, not-fully-late, Not-god, not-guilty, not-half-cheeky, not-hawk, Not-hess, not-in, not-inconsiderable, not-infrequent, not-in-front-of-the-children, not-in-my-backyard, not-invented-here, not-just, not-knowing, not-knowing-immediately, not-lamented, not-life, not-long-ago, not-looking, not-masculine, not-men, not-much-bigger, not-much-more, not-much-reported, not-nice, not-not, not-obtainable, not-ok, not-only, not-out, not-outrageous, not-p, not-particularly-modest, Not-pated, not-proven, not-quite, not-quite-accidentally, not-quite-blonde, not-quite-cleanness, not-quite-concealed, not-quite-definable, not-quite-finished, not-quite-grown-up, not-quite-human, not-quite-nice, Not-quite-raeburns, not-quite-redeemed, not-quite-so-innocent, not-quite-so-intrepid, not-quite-so-top, not-quite-so-traditional, not-quite-velvet, not-really-an-aunt, not-remembering, not-s, not-self, not-serious, not-shot, not-smoking, not-so, not-so-ancient, not-so-bright, not-so-clever, not-so-contained, not-so-covert, not-so-crazy, not-so-dearest, not-so-decent, not-so-distant, not-so-dour, not-so-dry, not-so-dumb-broads, not-so-elected, not-so-eminent, not-so-experienced, not-so-famous, not-so-free, not-so-ginger, not-so-glorious, not-so-good, not-so-good-looking, not-sogoods, not-so-great, not-so-hidden, not-so-hot, not-so-humble, not-so-irrational, not-so-lazy, not-so-light, not-so-little, not-so-mystery, not-so-nasty, not-so-new, not-so-old, not-so-ordinary, not-so-primed, not-so-primrosy, not-so-prodigal, not-so-radical, not-so-recent, not-so-rich, not-so-secret, not-so-self-explanatory, not-so-simple, not-so-slight, not-so-small, not-so-snow-white, not-so-splendid, not-so-subtle, not-so-sweet, not-so-very, not-so-young, not-so-youthful, not-subject, not-surprising, not-terribly-poor, not-that, Not-to-be, not-to-be-missed, not-to-be-relied-upon, not-to-be-remembered, not-to-be-trusted, not-to-keen, not-too, not-too-bright, not-too-daunting, not-too-deep, not-too-difficult, not-too-distant, not-too-enquiring, not-too-exhaustive, not-too-far-distant, not-too-gentle, not-too-high, not-too-marvellous, not-too-responsible, not-too-sound, not-too-terrible, not-too-well, not-unattractive, not-unfounded, not-unknown, not-us, not-utterly-familiar, not-very-bright, not-very-careful, not-very-complicated, not-very-covert, not-very-easy, not-very-exciting, not-very-firmly-sealed, not-very-good, not-very-old, not-very-political, not-very-precisely, not-very-rich, not-very-secret, not-very-serious, not-very-standard, not-wall, not-was, not-whole, not-wholly-unexpected, not-withstanding, not-women, not-would, not-x, Not-y, not-yet, not-yet-class, not-yet-dead, Not-z. | |
Ending with "not": n-not, what-not. | |
Containing "not": Alan-is-not-here, announced-but-not-available, batteries-not-included, chic-but-not-denim, do-not-disturb, do-not-touch-me, how-not-not-to, i-am-not-really-dead-but-just-popped-out-for-a-packet-of-fags, in-new-not-in-old, in-old-not-in-new, long-time-not-see, perhaps-not-improved, something-not-quite-right, stoically-not-giggling, voidable-but-not-avoided, what-not-to-eat. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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