not at all

English

Pronunciation

• (General American)
  • (without the cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): [ˈnɑɾəˈɾɔɫ]
  • (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): [ˈnɑɾəˈɾɑɫ]
• (UK)
  • IPA^(key): [ˈnɒtʰəˈtʰɔːɫ]
• (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
• Bulgarian: не въобще́ (ne vǎobšté), не изо́бщо (ne izóbšto)
• 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, nule
• 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 Greek: 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, en lo absoluto, ningún
• 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. (chiefly British, idiomatic) A conventional reply to an expression of gratitude.

   —Thank you for coming. —Not at all. Thank you for having me.

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 Arabic: 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

  Latin: 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