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aint

aint is the alternative form of ain't.

Meaning of ain't

Verb

ain't

  1. (dialectal, informal, nonstandard) Am not.
    • I ain’t ready yet; gimme a sec.
    Synonyms:
    amn't, an't
  2. (dialectal, informal, nonstandard) Are not, aren’t; is not, isn’t.
    • That ain't right.
  3. (dialectal, informal, nonstandard) Have not, haven’t; has not, hasn’t, when used as an auxiliary.
    • 'Okay, okay. Keep yo shirt on. Ah ain't done nuthen wrong.'1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 124
    Synonyms:
    hain't, han't
  4. (dialectal, informal, nonstandard) Don’t, doesn’t.
    • Well, I ain’t wanna do that though.
  5. (dialectal, informal, nonstandard) Didn’t.
    • I ain’t go into the bathroom last night that late.

Questions about aint

What is aint the alternative form of?
Aint is the alternative form of ain't.

Words near aint in the dictionary

  1. Ainslies
  2. Ainstable
  3. Ainsworth
  4. Ainsworth Hot Springs
  5. Ainsworths
  6. aint
  7. aintcha
  8. aintchas
  9. Ainthorpe
  10. Aintree
  11. Ainu

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aint (page history and authors); ain't (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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