none

1. 1.

   not at all or in no way

   “seemed none too pleased with his dinner”

   “shirt looked none the worse for having been slept in”

   “none too prosperous”

   “the passage is none too clear”

Other forms of none

plural

nones·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about none

What does none mean?

none means "a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in none?

none has 1 syllable: none. In IPA it is /ˈnʌn/.

Is none a common word?

none is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with none?

1 word rhymes with none. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.