Meanings
- Used to indicate that the following clause is not true and that this negatively impacts the importance of the preceding clause.
I didn't finish my dinner today. Not that my sister is bad at cooking, I just wasn't that hungry.
2 more examples
Friday that it would be discontinuing sales of the former in a press release timed to turn that part of the film into a non-story; in the meantime, the latter has already cost Johnson & Johnson $300 million in settlements. Not that either company is in danger of going broke.
2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2018But that's not to say Barack Obama is perfect or anything. If McCain wanted, he could point out that Obama voted to subsidize coal interests despite his rhetoric against global warming. Not that McCain has to do that. Barack Obama is just saying.
2008 September 30, “Obama Runs Constructive Criticism Ad on McCain”, in The Onion
Translations
French pas que, non que
- pas queTranslations
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- non pas queTranslations
Hungarian nem mintha
- nem minthaTranslations
Polish nie żeby, nie to że
- nie żebyTranslations
- nie to żeTranslations
Romanian nu că
- nu căTranslations
Spanish no es que
- no es queTranslations
Cite this entry
not that. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/not%20that
“not that.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/not%20that. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “not that,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/not%20that.
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