Nay Definition

nā
nays
adverb
No.
All but four Democrats voted nay.
American Heritage
No.
Webster's New World
And moreover.
He was ill-favored, nay, hideous.
American Heritage
Not that only, but also.
I permit, nay, encourage it.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
nays
A refusal or denial.
Webster's New World
A negative vote or a person voting in the negative.
Webster's New World
A negative answer.
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abbreviation

Nayarit, a state of Mexico.

Wiktionary
idiom
say someone nay
  • to refuse or forbid
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Nay

Noun

Singular:
nay
Plural:
nays

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Nay

  • say someone nay

Origin of Nay

  • Middle English from Old Norse nei ne not ne in Indo-European roots ei ever aiw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Nay Sentence Examples

  • Nay, I often did better than this.

  • It would be foolish, nay, rash, to deny its importance."

  • Nay, you know well that my words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and life.

  • By feeding the sheep, the land is dunged as if it had been folded; and those turnips, though few or none be carried off for human use, are a very excellent improvement, nay, some reckon it so, though they only plough the turnips in without feeding."

  • Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.

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