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NOT

3 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

NOT is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

adverb
  1. Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
    • Did you take out the trash? — No, I did not. I do not think it was my turn, was it?
    • Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
    • It was felt desirable that she not leave school before fourteen.
    • I'd rather MoM (did) not stay, cuz the best thing about a holiday is not working.
    • Not a day passes when I don't regret not having enrolled in medicine.
  2. To no degree.
    • That is not red; it's green.
    • It's not you, it's me.
  3. Used to indicate the opposite or near opposite, often in a form of understatement.
    • In the not too distant future my view on the matter might be not a million miles away from yours.
    • I wonder if I shouldn't see a doctor - I've been feeling funny the last few days.
  4. Used before a determiner phrase, a pronominal phrase etc. to convey a negative attitude (e.g. denial, sadness, anger) towards something.
    • Oh god, not that! Anything but that!
    • Not another rainy day!
  5. informalironicUsed before a non-finite clause (especially a gerund-participial clause) or less commonly a determiner phrase to ironically convey some attitude (e.g. surprise, incredulity, amusement, embarrassment) towards something.
    • Not me writing example sentences again.
conjunction
  1. And not.
    • I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
    • He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
    • We can't run this bar without her. Not and raise two kids.
interjection
  1. slangUsed to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
    • I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney … not!
    • Sure, you’re perfect the way you are … not!
noun
  1. An instance of using the word “not”; a negation or denial.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of NOT (“unary operation on logical values that changes true to false, and false to true”).