Not crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Not” are PART, AWAY or LIVE, with 4 letters. Below are 50 answers from 3 to 15 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

YEA 3 letters · adverb

not only so, but “I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice”

PART 4 letters · adverb

to some extent; in some degree; not wholly “I felt partly to blame”

QUITE 5 letters · adverb

to a degree (not used with a negative) “quite tasty”

LITTLE 6 letters · adjective

(quantifier used with mass nouns) small in quantity or degree; not much or almost none or (with ‘a’) at least some “little rain fell in May”

LOOSELY 7 letters · adverb

in a relaxed manner; not rigid “his hands lay loosely”

SECRETLY 8 letters · adverb

in secrecy; not openly “met secretly to discuss the invasion plans”

VIRTUALLY 9 letters · adverb

in essence or effect but not in fact “the strike virtually paralyzed the city”

INCREDIBLY 10 letters · adverb

not easy to believe “incredibly, she survived the crash”

TEMPORARILY 11 letters · adverb

for a limited time only; not permanently “he will work here temporarily”

UNEXPECTEDLY 12 letters · adverb

in a way that was not expected

UNCONDITIONALLY 15 letters · adverb

not subject to a condition “he accepted the offer unconditionally”

Telling them apart

With 4 squares, PART, AWAY, LIVE, YEAH and NONE all fit. The first letter tells them all apart: P → PART · A → AWAY · L → LIVE · Y → YEAH · N → NONE. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 5 squares, QUITE, APART, ASIDE and ALOUD all fit. The second letter tells them all apart: U → QUITE · P → APART · S → ASIDE · L → ALOUD. Fill in that crossing answer first.

With 6 squares, LITTLE, RATHER, NEARBY, HARDLY, BARELY and RARELY all fit. The first letter settles most of it: L → LITTLE · R → RATHER, RARELY · N → NEARBY · H → HARDLY · B → BARELY. Fill in that crossing answer first.

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “notes” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “not” means

• adverb: negation of a word or group of words (“he does not speak French”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as NOT, and words whose definition is NOT. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.