not at all

English

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈnɒt ət ˈɔːl/
  • IPA^(key): /ˈnɒ.təˈtɔːl/
• (General American)
  • IPA^(key): /nɑʔ.æʔ.ɔl/
• (General Australian)
  • IPA^(key): [ˈnɒ.ɾəˈɾɔːɫ]

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Adverb

not at all

1. (emphatic) Not in the least.
   • 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 222716698:

     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.

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

Synonyms

• (emphatically: not): by no means, hardly, in no way, not in the least, not in the slightest, not the least bit, not the slightest bit

Translations

not

• Catalan: gens (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 毫不 (zh) (háobù), 並不 (zh), 并不 (zh) (bìngbù), 決不 (zh), 决不 (zh) (juébù), 並未 (zh), 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 (ku) (nexêr)

• Latin: minime (la)
• Macedonian: во́општо не (vóopšto ne), ни́малку (nímalku), ич (ič) (colloquial)
• 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
• Vietnamese: chẳng (vi), chả (vi) (informal), cóc (vi)
• Welsh: dim o gwbl, ddim o gwbl
• Westrobothnian: ingera, ingan

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 (ʿafwan), عَلَى الرُحْب وَالسَّعَة‎ (ʿalā r-ruḥb wa-s-saʿa), اَلْعَفْو‎ (al-ʿafw)

  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:

  Mandarin: 不客氣 (zh), 不客气 (zh) (bù kèqi), 不用謝, 不用谢 (bùyòngxiè), 不謝, 不谢 (bùxiè)

  Min Nan: 袂 (zh-min-nan) (boē)

• 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)
• 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 (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
• Lithuanian: nėra už ką
• Macedonian: не́ма на што (néma na što), по́велете и друг пат (póvelete i drug pat), молам (molam)
• Mongolian: зүгээр (mn) (dzügeer)
• Persian: قابل نداشت‎ (qâbel nadašt), خواهش می‌کنم‎ (fa) (xaheš mi-konam)
• Polish: proszę (pl), nie ma za co (pl)
• Portuguese: de nada (pt), por nada (pt)
• 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

• at all