- not: whether or no
- not in any degree; not at all: no worse
- nay; not so: the opposite of yes, used to deny, refuse, or disagree
Origin of no
Middle English from Old English na from ne a, literally , not ever from Indo-European base an unverified form ne, n?, negative particle from source Sanskrit ná, Classical Greek ne-, Classical Latin ne-, Gothic and Old High German ni, Old Irish no- it is not so; nay: the opposite of yes
- it cannot be so: used to express surprise, disbelief, dismay, etc.
- emphatically not: used to give force to a following negative statement or to introduce a fuller or more specific statement
not any; not a; not one: no errors
Origin of no
ME, form of non, none (see none) used only before a consonant < OE nan < ne an, lit., not one (see one)noun
pl. noes or nos- an utterance of no; refusal or denial
- a negative vote, or a person voting in the negative; nay
no Idioms
no can do
Slang I (or we) cannot do it
