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n/a

n/a adjective: not applicable. Also the initialism of no answer.

Adjective (1)

n/a (not comparable)

  1. not applicable
  2. not available
  3. not assigned, no assignment
  4. non-assessable
  5. not attested
  6. not approved
  7. nonalcoholic (used in the restaurant industry)

Adjective (2) capitalized: N/A

N/A (not comparable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative form of n/a.

Also used as

n/a is also the initialism of no answer.

n/a is also the initialism of nothing added.

n/a meaning in Hindi, Bengali, Punjabi and Arabic

n/a in Hindi

not applicable
अंदाज़ा नहीं andāzā nahī̃

n/a in Bengali

not applicable
প্রযোজ্য নহে projōjjo nohe

n/a in Punjabi

not applicable
ਲਾਗੂ ਨਹੀਂ lāgū nahī̃

n/a in Arabic

not applicable
لَا ينطبق
More languagesFewer languages
Indonesian
tidak tersedia
Persian
بدون کاربرد, موجود نیست

Forms of n/a

alternative formN/A
alternative formn.a.

Origin of n/a

From Latin non + applicabilis, from applicō (“join to, attach, apply”).

Questions about n/a

What does n/a mean?
N/a means not applicable.
What part of speech is n/a?
N/a is an adjective.

Words near n/a in the dictionary

  1. N.V.
  2. N.W.T.
  3. N.Y.
  4. N.Y.C.
  5. N.Z.
  6. n/a
  7. N/D
  8. n/m
  9. N/S
  10. n/t
  11. n00b

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: n/a (page history and authors); N/A (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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