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not that

not that conjunction: used to indicate that the following clause is not true and that this negatively impacts the importance of the preceding clause.

Conjunction

not that

  1. Used to indicate that the following clause is not true and that this negatively impacts the importance of the preceding clause.
    • I didn't finish my dinner today. Not that my sister is bad at cooking, I just wasn't that hungry.
    • Friday that it would be discontinuing sales of the former in a press release timed to turn that part of the film into a non-story; in the meantime, the latter has already cost Johnson & Johnson $300 million in settlements. Not that either company is in danger of going broke.2018 July 26, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “A documentary muckraker takes on the tech sector of health in The Bleeding Edge”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2018

Questions about not that

What does not that mean?
Not that means used to indicate that the following clause is not true and that this negatively impacts the importance of the preceding clause.
What part of speech is not that?
Not that is a conjunction.

Words near not that in the dictionary

  1. not see straight
  2. not so fast
  3. not so hot
  4. not so much
  5. not someone's circus, not someone's monkeys
  6. not that
  7. not that I know of
  8. not the brightest bulb
  9. not the brightest bulb in the chandelier
  10. not the case
  11. not the end of the world

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