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couldn've

couldn've is the contraction of couldn't've.

Meaning of couldn't've

Contraction

couldn’t’ve

  1. (contraction, nonstandard) Could not have.
    Synonyms:
    couldna

Questions about couldn've

What is couldn've the contraction of?
Couldn've is the contraction of couldn't've.

Words near couldn've in the dictionary

  1. couldn't stand the sight of
  2. couldn't stop a pig in a passage
  3. couldn't wait
  4. couldn't've
  5. couldn't-care-less
  6. couldn've
  7. couldna
  8. couldnae
  9. couldnt
  10. couldron
  11. couldrons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: couldn've (page history and authors); couldn't've (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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