BY NO MANNER OF MEANS

Definition: BY NO MANNER OF MEANS

BY NO MANNER OF MEANS

1. Not at all; certainly not; not in any degree. The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on the other. --Addison.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Smallness

Almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but; near upon, close upon; peu s'en faut, near the mark; within an ace of, within an inch of; on the brink of; scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than. about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say; be the same, be little more or less. no ways, no way, no wise; not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow; in no wise, in no respect; by no means, by no manner of means; on no account, at no hand.

Turkish

katiyen (absolutely not, by no means, in no degree, in no wise, never, no way, no whit, nohow, not a whit, not at all, nothing, noway, on no account), hiçbir suretle (by no means, in no way, never, under no circumstances), asla (by no means, ever, far from, in no way, in no wise, ne'er, never, nevermore, no way, no whit, nohow, not a bit, not a whit, not an iota, not at all, not by a fraction, nothing, nothing doing, nowise, nuts, on no account). (various references)