not at all

English

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • IPA^(key): [ˈnɒtʰəˈtʰɔːɫ]
• (General American)
  • IPA^(key): [ˈnɑɾəˈɾɔɫ]
  • (cot–caught merger)
    • IPA^(key): [ˈnɑɾəˈɾɑɫ]
• (General Australian)
  • IPA^(key): [ˈnɔɾəˈɾoːɫ]

    • Audio (General Australian):

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Adverb

not at all

1. (emphatic) Not even a tiny bit; not in any way.

   Synonyms: by no means, hardly, in no way, not in the least, not in the slightest, not the least bit, not the slightest bit; devil a bit (dated, uncommon)

   Antonyms: a bit, a little bit, somewhat; in a way, to an extent

   He's not at all friendly towards his ex-wife.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter III, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

Translations

not

Afrikaans: glad nie Catalan: gens (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 毫不 (zh) (háobù), 並不／并不 (zh) (bìngbù), 決不／决不 (zh) (juébù), 並未／并未 (zh) (bìngwèi) Danish: overhovedet ikke, slet ikke, ikke en pind Dutch: totaal niet Esperanto: tute ne Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: ei lainkaan (fi), ei yhtään French: pas du tout (fr) Galician: en absoluto, non tal German: überhaupt nicht, gar nicht (de) Gothic: 𐌽𐌴𐌹 (nei) Greek: καθόλου (el) (kathólou) Ancient: οὐδαμῶς (oudamôs) Hungarian: egyáltalán nem, cseppet sem, a legkevésbé sem Icelandic: alls ekki (is) Ido: tote ne Irish: ar chor ar bith (with negative) Italian: (please verify) non ... per niente Japanese: 全然 (ja) (ぜんぜん, zenzen) Korean: 결코 (ko) (gyeolko) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: نەخێر (nexêr) Latin: minime (la) Macedonian: во́општо не (vóopšto ne), ни́малку (nímalku), ич (ič) (colloquial) Marathi: अजिबात नाही (ajibāt nāhī) Persian: اصلا (fa) (aslan), به هیچ وجه (be hêč vajh), حاشا و کلا (hâšâ va kallâ) Plautdietsch: goanich Polish: wcale nie Portuguese: nada (pt), não... em nada, não... em absoluto Romanian: deloc (ro) Russian: во́все нет (vóvse net), отню́дь (нет) (otnjúdʹ (net)), ничу́ть не (ničútʹ ne) (colloquial, followed by adjectives or adverbials) Scots: no ava Spanish: en absoluto (es), para nada Swedish: inte alls, alls inte, rakt inte Tajik: асло (aslo), ба ҳеч ваҷҳ (ba heč vajh), ҳошо ва калло (hošo va kallo) Ukrainian: взагалі́ не (vzahalí ne) Vietnamese: chẳng (vi), chả (vi) (informal), cóc (vi) Welsh: dim o gwbl, ddim o gwbl

Interjection

not at all

1. (idiomatic) Used similarly to you're welcome, as a conventional reply to an expression of gratitude.

   Thank you for this very thoughtful present. — Not at all.

2. (idiomatic) Don't worry about it (response to worry or an apology)

Synonyms

• (conventional reply to expression of gratitude): don't mention it, forget it, it's nothing, no problem, that's all right, that's OK, think nothing of it, you're welcome; see also Thesaurus:you're welcome

Translations

conventional reply to expression of gratitude

Arabic: عَفْوًا (ʕafwan), عَلَى الرُحْب وَالسَّعَة (ʕalā r-ruḥb wa-s-saʕa), اَلْعَفْو (al-ʕafw) Moroccan: لا شكرا على واجب Armenian: խնդրեմ (xndrem) Azerbaijani: dəyməz Belarusian: няма́ за што́ (njamá za štó), калі́ ла́ска (kalí láska) Bulgarian: ня́ма защо́ (njáma zaštó) Catalan: de res (ca) Chinese: Hokkien: 袂 (zh-min-nan) (boē) Mandarin: 不客氣／不客气 (zh) (bù kèqi), 不用謝／不用谢 (zh) (bùyòngxiè), 不謝／不谢 (zh) (bùxiè) Czech: není zač (cs), prosím (cs), rádo se stalo (cs), za málo Dutch: geen probleem (nl), geen dank graag gedaan (nl) Esperanto: ne dankinde (eo) Finnish: ei lainkaan (fi), eipä kestä (fi) French: de rien (fr) (it’s nothing), il n’y a pas de quoi (fr), pas de quoi (fr) Galician: de nada Georgian: არაფრის (arapris), არაფერს (arapers) German: bitte (de), gern geschehen (de), keine Ursache (de), nichts zu danken Greek: τίποτα (el) (típota) Hebrew: עַל לֹא דָּבָר (he) ('al lo davár), אֵין בְּעַד מַה (he) (ēn b'ad ma) Hindi: कुछ नहीं (kuch nahī̃) Hungarian: nincs mit (hu), szóra sem érdemes (hu), kérem (hu) Ido: ne dankinde Italian: prego (it), non c'è di che (it) Japanese: どう致しまして (ja) (どういたしまして, dō itashimashite), とんでもない (ja) (tonde mo nai), いいえ (ja) (iie) (informal) Khmer: អញ្ជើញ (km) (ʼɑñcəəñ) Korean: 천만에요 (cheonmaneyo), 아니에요 (ko) (anieyo), 별말씀을요 (byeolmalsseumeuryo) Lao: ບໍ່ເປັນຫຍັງ (bǭ pen nyang) Latvian: nav par ko (lv) Lithuanian: nėra už ką Macedonian: не́ма на што (néma na što), по́велете и друг пат (póvelete i drug pat), молам (molam) Mongolian: зүгээр (mn) (zügeer) Persian: قابل نداشت (qâbel nadâšt), خواهش می‌کنم (fa) (xâheš mi-konam) Polish: proszę (pl), nie ma za co (pl) Portuguese: de nada (pt), por nada (pt) Romanian: pentru nimic, nu ai pentru ce/nu aveți pentru ce, cu plăcere Russian: не́ за что (ru) (né za što), пожа́луйста (ru) (požálujsta), не сто́ит благода́рности (ru) (ne stóit blagodárnosti), на здоро́вье (ru) (na zdoróvʹje) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: нема на чему, молим Roman: nema na čemu, molim (sh) Slovak: nie je za čo, za málo, prosím Slovene: ni za kaj Spanish: de nada (es), no hay de qué (es) Swedish: ingen orsak (sv), det var så lite (sv) Thai: ไม่เป็นไร (mâi-bpen-rai) (it’s nothing) Turkish: önemli değil, bir şey değil, rica ederim (tr) Ukrainian: нема́ за́ що (nemá zá ščo), будь ла́ска (uk) (budʹ láska) Vietnamese: không có gì (it’s nothing), không có chi

See also

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