Word Type
Not can be an adverb, a conjunction, an interjection or a noun.
not used as an adverb:
- Negates the meaning of the modified verb.
"Did you take out the trash? No, I did not." - To no degree
"That is not red, it's orange."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
not used as a conjunction:
- Indicates that the following phrase is the proper object, as opposed to the second.
"I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken."
Conjunctions are connector words. Examples of conjunctions are: and, but, so. They help us to group words and connect phrases, like in the sentence: "We have apples and oranges, but we need bananas." Learn more →
not used as an interjection:
- Used to indicate that the previous phrase was meant sarcastically or ironically.
"I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!"
An interjection is an abrupt remark like Oh! or Dear me, or Eww. It is usually used to express the strong emotions of the speaker. The sentence 'Congratulations! You won the gold medal!' shows the use of 'congratulations' as an interjection. Learn more →
not used as a noun:
- Unary logical function NOT, true if input is false, or a gate implementing that negation function.
"You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip."
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is not?
- Adverb usage: Did you take out the trash? No, I did not.
- Adverb usage: Not knowing any better, I went ahead.
- Adverb usage: That is not red, it's orange.
- Conjunction usage: I wanted a plate of shrimp, not a bucket of chicken.
- Conjunction usage: He worked Monday, not Tuesday, just afternoons Wednesday and Thursday, and all day Friday.
- Conjunction usage: He painted the car blue and black, not solid purple.
- Interjection usage: I really like hanging out with my little brother watching Barney... not!
- Interjection usage: Sure, you're perfect the way you are... not!
- Noun usage: You need a not there to conform with the negative logic of the memory chip.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of not are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of not, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).