Meanings
- idiomaticAn apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given point of discussion.
The city was already having staffing difficulties, not to mention having a three million dollar budget shortfall.
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In fact, the immortal tunemeister Irving Berlin wrote all three [songs], along with about 1,500 others, not to mention the scores for eighteen Hollywood films and nineteen Broadway musicals.
2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic[…]real kidneys[…]. But they are nothing like as efficient, and can cause bleeding, clotting and infection—not to mention inconvenience for patients, who typically need to be hooked up to one three times a week for hours at a time.
2013 June 1, “A better waterworks”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 5 (Technology Quarterly)Synonyms: to say nothing of
Synonyms & antonyms
conjunctionAn apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given point of discussion.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbmuch less
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic نَاهِيكَ عَن, هٰذَا عَدَا عَنْ
- نَاهِيكَ عَن (nāhīka ʕan)much less
- هٰذَا عَدَا عَنْ (hāḏā ʕadā ʕan)much less
Chinese Mandarin 更不用說 /更不用说, 何況 /何况
- 更不用說 /更不用说 (gèng bùyòng shuō)much less
- 何況 /何况 (hékuàng)much less
Czech nemluvě
- nemluvěmuch less
Danish for ikke at nævne, for ikke at tale om
- for ikke at nævnemuch less
- for ikke at tale ommuch less
Dutch om nog maar te zwijgen van
- om nog maar te zwijgen vanmuch less
Finnish puhumattakaan, saati
- puhumattakaanmuch less
- saatimuch less
French sans parler de
- sans parler demuch less
German zugeschweigen, ganz zu schweigen von
- zugeschweigenmuch less
- ganz zu schweigen vonmuch less
Hebrew שֶׁלֹּא לְדַבֵּר עַל
- שֶׁלֹּא לְדַבֵּר עַלmuch less
Hungarian nem is beszélve
- nem is beszélvemuch less
Icelandic hvað þá heldur
- hvað þá heldurmuch less
Irish gan trácht ar
- gan trácht armuch less
Italian senza parlare di
- senza parlare dimuch less
Norwegian for ikke å snakke om
- for ikke å snakke ommuch less
Polish nie mówiąc o, nie mówiąc już o
- nie mówiąc omuch less
- nie mówiąc już omuch less
- nie wspominając omuch less
- nie wspominając już omuch less
- co dopieromuch less
Portuguese sem falar de
- sem falar demuch less
Romanian darămite
- darămitemuch less
Russian не говоря́ уже́ о
- не говоря́ уже́ о (ne govorjá užé o)much less
Scottish Gaelic gun luaidh
- gun luaidhmuch less
Slovak nehovoriac o
- nehovoriac omuch less
Spanish sin mencionar, por no hablar de
- sin mencionarmuch less
- por no hablar demuch less
- para no hablar demuch less
- por no decirmuch less
- por no mencionarmuch less
- sin hablar demuch less
Swedish för att inte tala om
- för att inte tala ommuch less
Turkish bırak
- bırakmuch less
Ukrainian не ка́жучи вже про
- не ка́жучи вже про (ne kážučy vže pro)much less
Welsh heb sôn am
- heb sôn ammuch less
Cite this entry
not to mention. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/not%20to%20mention
“not to mention.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/not%20to%20mention. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “not to mention,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/not%20to%20mention.
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