not

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsnon

Questions about not

What does not mean?

not means "negation of a word or group of words".

How many syllables are in not?

not has 1 syllable: not. In IPA it is /ˈnɑt/.

What is another word for not?

Close synonyms include non. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is not a common word?

not 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.