nope
UK/nəʊp/US/noʊp/
nope particle: no.
Particle
nope
- No.
- "Is my son here, Clarence?" asked Roger Oakley. "Nope. The whistle ain't blowed yet."1856, Sidney George Fisher, Charles Edward Fisher, Kanzas and the Constitution, page 97
- "No," from Tom, ending the word with so decided a pressure of the lips that it sounded like "nope."1880, R. Foli, Ill weeds, page 319
Noun (1)
nope (plural nopes)
- A negative reply, no.
- I'll take that as a nope, then.
- By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt.1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC (2001), p. 32
- An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
- This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, https://web.archive.org/web/20160731215210/http://moviepilot.com/posts/4016375
Noun (2)
nope (plural nopes)
- A bullfinch.
- To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she.1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005)...
- I may note that olp, if pronounced ope, as it sometimes is, may be the origin of nope; an ope, and a nope, differ as little as possible.1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county, R. Hunter, p. 255
Noun (3)
nope (plural nopes)
- A blow to the head.
- (in an example of use of crackmans) The cull thought to have loped by breaking through the crackmans, but we fetched him back by a nope on the costard, which stopped his jaw.1823, Francis Grose, Pierce Egan, Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, Francis Grose, page xci
- I'll fetch thee a nope.1829, Joseph Hunter, The Hallamshire Glossary, W. Pickering, page 69
Verb
nope (third-person singular simple present nopes, present participle noping, simple past and past participle noped)
- To hit someone on the head.
- "Nope him on the costard," said Ben Bolter.1851, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a tale of the real and the ideal, blight and bloom, Phillips, Sampson, & Co., page 183
- The sexton seemed reluctant to resume his old duties, remarking -- "Be I to nope Mr. M on the head if I catches him asleep?"1891, T F Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, A. D. Innes & co., page 65
Proper noun capitalized: Nope
Nope
- Martha's Vineyard
- The principal island, Martha's Vineyard...Its usual Indian name was Capawock, though sometimes called Nope. (It is believed that Nope was more properly the name of Gay Head.) The greatest part of the island is low and level land.1841, John Warner Barber, Historical Collections, Dorr, page 146
- Miohqsoo, or Myoxeo, was another noted Indian of Nope. He was a convert of Hiacoomes, whom he had sent for to inquire of him about his God.1848, By S. G. (Samuel Gardner) Drake, Biography and History of the Indians of North America, from Its First Discovery, B. B. Mussey, p. 118
nope meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
nope in Hindi
- informal "no"
- नहीं nahī̃
nope in Urdu
- لا, نہ, نہیں
nope in Malayalam
- ഇല്ല
More languagesFewer languages
- nope in Indonesian
- enggak
- nope in Persian
- نه na
Examples of nope in a sentence
- Nope, it's not an edit requiring suppression as defined by that page. Perhaps we need a Wikipedia:Requests for revdel page.
- And he'd noped out of hers as soon as she'd told him she was pregnant.
- But nope, in poker there is a thing called chirping chips.
Antonyms of nope
Forms of nope
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | nopes |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | nopes |
| present participle | noping |
| past participle | noped |
| past | noped |
Origin of nope
Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Luick instead claims it represents a realisation of no with final [ʔ], with a purported reduction of /p/ to [ʔ] before syllabic liquids providing a model for the spelling of [ʔ] as -pe, but it is more parsimonious to assume that the -pe directly represents attested realisations with [p̚]. Therefore no + -p. Compare yep/yup.
Probably a rebracketing of an ope (see 1823 quote), from alp (“bullfinch”).
Possibly influenced by nape and knap.
Words formed from nope
Phrases with nope
Words that rhyme with nope
Questions about nope
- What does nope mean?
- Nope means no.
- What is nope in Hindi?
- Nope in Hindi is नहीं (nahī̃). See Nope meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is nope?
- Nope can be a particle, a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce nope?
- Nope is pronounced /nəʊp/ (UK).
Words near nope in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nope (page history and authors); Nope (page history and authors); nope (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nope (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nope (Malayalam 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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