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not to mention

not to mention conjunction: an apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given point of discussion.

Conjunction

not to mention

  1. (idiomatic) An apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given point of discussion.
    • The city was already having staffing difficulties, not to mention having a three million dollar budget shortfall.
    • In fact, the immortal tunemeister Irving Berlin wrote all three [songs], along with about 1,500 others, not to mention the scores for eighteen Hollywood films and nineteen Broadway musicals.2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51

not to mention meaning in Malayalam and Arabic

not to mention in Malayalam

in addition to, as well as, not counting
കൂടാതെ, പുറമേ, കൂടുതലായി, വേറെ വിട്ട്, അല്ലാതെ, ഉപരിയായി

not to mention in Arabic

much less
نَاهِيكَ عَن nāhīka ʕan, هٰذَا عَدَا عَنْ hāḏā ʕadā ʕan

Synonyms of not to mention

Questions about not to mention

What does not to mention mean?
Not to mention means an apophasis used by a speaker to introduce, despite claiming not to address, a given point of discussion.
What is not to mention in Malayalam?
Not to mention in Malayalam is കൂടാതെ, പുറമേ, കൂടുതലായി. See Not to mention meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is not to mention?
Not to mention is a conjunction.

Words near not to mention in the dictionary

  1. not the sharpest pencil in the box
  2. not the sharpest tool in the box
  3. not the sharpest tool in the shed
  4. not to be outdone
  5. not to brag
  6. not to mention
  7. not to put a tooth in it
  8. not to put too fine a point on it
  9. not to put too fine a word on it
  10. not to say
  11. not to speak of

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: not to mention (page history and authors); not to mention (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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