English Explanatory Dictionary

NO

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Initialism of normally open.
name
  1. Initialism of Novus Ordo.
adv
  1. Alternative form of No..
noun
  1. Alternative form of No..
noun
  1. Alternative form of Noh: a form of classical Japanese drama.
name
  1. A lake in South Sudan.
  2. A county of South Sudan.
det
  1. Not any.
  2. Hardly any.
  3. Not any possibility or allowance of (something).
  4. Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
adv
  1. Not, not at all.
  2. Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
  3. Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
  4. Not.
  5. Not, does not, do not, etc.
particle
  1. Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.
  2. Used to express sadness or disappointment.
  3. Used to express disbelief.
  4. Used to show agreement with a negative question.
  5. Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement.
prep
  1. Without.
  2. Like.
noun
  1. A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval.
  2. A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.
verb
  1. To say “no”.
  2. To answer with “no”; to decline, reject.
adv
  1. Alternative form of No.
noun
  1. Alternative form of No.

Pronunciation

/nəʊ/ en-uk-no.ogg /no/ /noː/ /niː/ /neː/ /næ/ /nɜː/ /nɑː/ /noʊ/ en-us-no.ogg /nəʉ/ /nɐʉ/ en-nz-no.ogg /nœʊ/

Word forms

NO Nos noes noing noed

Etymology

Variant of No., from the scribal abbreviation for Latin numero (“in number, to the number of”).

Synonyms

zero not even one not one no I'm good ixnay nay nah naw nope negatory no way

Antonyms

NC any some one a few a couple of a handful of multiple various many numerous countless every single quite yes aye maybe yea affirmative ahuh ar arr ay da indeed indeedy ja mhm oui uh-huh ya yah yass yassuh yayuh yeah yeh yep yepperoni yeppers yeppity yer yesh yessiree yessum yiss yup yuppers yuppity yus

Related words

quantifier

Derived words

a closed mouth catches no flies a closed mouth gathers no feet a little bit of bread and no cheese all fur and no knickers all retch and no vomit be no match for certificate of no criminal conviction duck or no dinner have no right natheless no-account no-action letter Nobama nobbut no bigs no-brainer no-brow no brown in town no clue nocoiner no fall zone no-fault no-fi no fidelity no flies on no-fly no glove no love no-go nogoer no-good no good ass no guts, no glory no harm, no foul no-hit no-hitter no holds barred no-hoper nohow nojito no later than no-legged nolisting no-load no love lost noman No Man's Heath no man's land no match for no-name no names, no pack drill no need no news is good news no-no no-nonsense no nothing noone no one no-one no pain, no gain No Place

Translations

Albanian: esht i ndaluar Arabic: مَمْنُوع Armenian: չ- Bashkir: ярамай Bashkir: тыйыла Catalan: no Catalan: prohibit Chinese: 𣍐使 /𫧃使 Chinese: 𣍐做 /𫧃做 Chinese: 𣍐使得 /𫧃使得 Chinese: 𣍐做得 /𫧃做得 Chinese: 𣍐用 /𫧃用 Chinese: 𣍐用得 /𫧃用得 Chinese Mandarin: 禁止 Chinese Mandarin: 不行 Czech: zakázáno Danish: forbudt Danish: ingen Dutch: verboden te Dutch: verboden Esperanto: malpermesi Finnish: kielletty Finnish: ei French: défense de French: interdiction de French: interdit Georgian: არ შეიძლება Georgian: აკრძალულია German: verboten Greek: απαγορεύεται Hungarian: tilos Italian: non Italian: vietato Italian: divieto di Japanese: 駄目 Kabyle: ala Kapampangan: alî Kapampangan: patugut Kapampangan: tuknang Kapampangan: bawal Khmer: ហាម Latin: prohibitus est Latin: vetatum est Latin: prohibitum est Latin: vetitum est Latin: vetatur Latin: prohibetur Latin: interdictus Latin: interdictum Latvian: aizliegts Lithuanian: nevale Malay: dilarang Maltese: m’hemmx Maltese: mhux permess Navajo: tʼáadoo Norwegian: forbudt Palauan: ng diak Persian: ممنوع است Polish: zakaz Polish: zabronione Portuguese: é proibido Portuguese: sem Russian: воспреща́ется Russian: не Sanskrit: न कर्तव्यम् Slovak: zákaz Slovene: prepovedano Spanish: prohibido Spanish: se prohíbe Spanish: nada de Spanish: no vale Swahili: hakuna Swedish: ingen Swedish: förbjudet att Swedish: förbjuden Swedish: förbjudet Abkhaz: мап Afrikaans: nee Ainu: ソモ Ainu: somo Albanian: jo Albanian: nuk Alutiiq: qang'a Arabic: لَا Arabic: لَأ Aramaic: ܠܐ Armenian: ոչ Armenian: չէ Aromanian: nu Assamese: নাই Assamese: নহয় Assamese: না Asturian: nun Azerbaijani: yox Azerbaijani: xeyr Bashkir: юҡ Basque: ez Belarusian: не Bengali: না Bengali: জি না Bengali: জ্বী না Bhojpuri: ना Central Bikol: dai Central Bikol: bako Breton: nann Bulgarian: не
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