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DNW

DNW is the initialism of do not want.

DNW is the initialism of did not wait.

Meaning of do not want

Phrase

do not want

  1. (Internet) Used to indicate that the speaker does not like something they have seen or heard.
    • Eww, spiders...DO NOT WANT!

Verb

DNW (third-person singular simple present DNWs, present participle DNWing, simple past and past participle DNWed)

  1. (slang) To express disinterest, aversion, or opposition to something.
    • not me DNWing soulmates for bingo and now trying to figure out how to cram this into one of my other squares LMFAO2020 November 5, the girl who does that stuff (@areyougonnabe), Twitter
    • One year I got someone who DNWed kink but only wanted explicit fic focusing on the pairing’s “power dynamics.” Me, three weeks into the writing period, yelling at long-suffering friends and spouse: “WHAT ISN’T KINK???”2020 December 22, @thefourthvine, Twitter

Forms of DNW

third-person singular presentDNWs
present participleDNWing
past participleDNWed
pastDNWed

Questions about DNW

What does DNW mean?
DNW means to express disinterest, aversion, or opposition to something.
What is DNW the initialism of?
DNW is the initialism of do not want.
What part of speech is DNW?
DNW is a verb.
What is the past tense of DNW?
The past tense of DNW is DNWed.

Words near DNW in the dictionary

  1. DNSBLs
  2. DNT
  3. dNTP
  4. dNTPs
  5. DNU
  6. DNW
  7. DNWed
  8. DNWing
  9. DNWs
  10. DNZ
  11. do

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: DNW (page history and authors); do not want (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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