no
adverb/nəʊ/
/nəʊ/
- used before adjectives and adverbs to mean ‘not’
- She's feeling no better this morning.
- Reply by no later than 21 July.
Word OriginOld English nō, nā (adverb), from ne ‘not’ + ō, ā ‘ever’. The determiner arose in Middle English (originally before words beginning with any consonant except h-), reduced from non, from Old English nān, from ne ‘not’ + ān ‘one’, of Germanic origin.Definitions on the go
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