Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
suffix
Negates the meaning of the clause in which it occurs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Qualifier: unless humorous
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From both univerbations of not and some preceding words (see usage notes), with following elision of the medial vowel, as well as univerbations of already reduced n't with preceding words.
