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nohow

nohow adverb: in no way; not at all; by no available means.

Adverb

nohow (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard, African-American Vernacular) In no way; not at all; by no available means.
    • "We don't see it here nohow," returned the man.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter V, in Treasure Island
    • “Oh, dear, oh dear,” she said, “my stepmother has sent me all this long way to fill this sieve with water from the Well of the World’s End, and I can’t fill it no how at all.”1890, Joseph Jacobs, “The Well of the World’s End”, in English Fairy Tales, page 216

nohow meaning in Urdu and Bengali

nohow in Urdu

قطعی نہیں

nohow in Bengali

কোনোভাবেই নয়, আদৌ না

Origin of nohow

From no + how.

Words formed from nohow

Questions about nohow

What does nohow mean?
Nohow means in no way; not at all; by no available means.
What is nohow in Urdu?
Nohow in Urdu is قطعی نہیں. See Nohow meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is nohow?
Nohow is an adverb.

Words near nohow in the dictionary

  1. noh
  2. Noha
  3. NOHC
  4. nohkan
  5. NoHo
  6. nohow
  7. nohowish
  8. nohows
  9. NOHP
  10. Nohrooz
  11. NOHs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nohow (page history and authors); nohow (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nohow (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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