Another Word For CANNOT

can not

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see can, not.

Verb : Alternative form of cannot. [Can not (be unable to).]

can't

Verb : Cannot (negative auxiliary); is unable to; does not have the ability to.

Verb : Is forbidden to; is not permitted to.

Verb : Often followed by be: is logically impossible.

ca'n't

Verb : Obsolete spelling of can't. [Cannot (negative auxiliary); is unable to; does not have the ability to.]

cann't

Verb : Nonstandard spelling of can't. [Cannot (negative auxiliary); is unable to; does not have the ability to.]

couldn't

Verb : could not (negative auxiliary)

cannot but

Verb : To have to; to cannot help; to be unable to do otherwise than.

cannott

Verb : Obsolete spelling of cannot [Can not (be unable to).]

can't but

Verb : Alternative form of cannot but. [To have to; to cannot help; to be unable to do otherwise than.]

cannot help

Verb : Alternative form of can't help. [(idiomatic) Be unable to avoid a situation, or stop something from happening.]

can't help

Verb : (idiomatic) Be unable to avoid a situation, or stop something from happening.

cannot make it

Verb : (Singapore, colloquial, stative, idiomatic) Cannot reach satisfactory or expected standards or do something competently; describes someone in a hopeless situation.

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cannot, make it.

cou'dn't

Verb : Obsolete form of couldn’t.

can't even

Verb : (slang) Without a following verb, as an expression of aporia: to be unable to express one's feelings about an overwhelming situation.

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see can't, even.

can't seem

Verb : Seem to be unable; seem not to be able.

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see can't, seem.

cannot away with

Verb : (obsolete) Cannot stand or endure; cannot bear.

can't stand

Verb : (idiomatic) cannot put up with

shouldn't

Verb : Should not (negative auxiliary)

Noun : (informal) Something that should not be done.

nill

Noun : Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.

Noun : Scales of hot iron from the forge.

Noun : (obsolete) Synonym of zinc oxide, particularly white forms used in medicine and cosmetics.

must not

Verb : Used to indicate that something is forbidden.

won't

Verb : will not (negative auxiliary); used to indicate a future non-occurring action.

mustn't

Verb : (uncommon) must not (negative auxiliary); used to indicate that something is forbidden or, in a tag question, that something is not necessary.

kyarn't

Verb : (Southern US, dialect, rare) Pronunciation spelling of can't. [Cannot (negative auxiliary); is unable to; does not have the ability to.]

wouldn't

Verb : would not (negative auxiliary)

needn't

Verb : (negative auxiliary, chiefly British, formal or literary) Need not.

need not

Verb : (chiefly UK, auxiliary) Indicating absence of necessity; do(es) not have to, do(es) not need to.

Verb : (auxiliary, dated) Indicating inadvisability; ought not to.

mayn't

Verb : (archaic) may not (negative auxiliary)

aren't

Verb : are not (negative auxiliary)

Verb : (colloquial) A contraction of “am not”, used e.g. in the construction "aren’t I?"

don't

Noun : Chiefly in dos and don'ts: something that must or should not be done.

forget it

an't

Verb : (Northern England, dialect) haven't; hasn't

Verb : (dialect, archaic, in non-rhotic dialects) aren't; are not

Verb : (dialect, archaic) isn't; is not

bean't

Verb : (dialectal, rare) be not

doesn't

Verb : Does not (negative auxiliary)

Verb : (archaic or regional) Dost not

hear of

Verb : To become aware of (a subject, person) through second-hand knowledge, or not through personal experience.

Verb : (with "won't", "will not", "wouldn't", etc.) To permit or tolerate.

daredn't

Verb : Contraction of dared + not.

mightn't

Verb : (uncommon) might not (negative auxiliary)

didn't

Verb : did not (negative auxiliary)

isn't

Noun : (colloquial, nonstandard) Something or someone that is defined by the lack of the characteristic being discussed.

Verb : Contraction of is + not (negative auxiliary). [(now colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there (also here and where) when the semantic subject is plural.]

willn't

Verb : (nonstandard, chiefly humorous) Synonym of won't.

weren't

Verb : Contraction of were + not. [simple subjunctive of be]

arn't

Verb : Alternative form of ain't. [Am not.]

hasn't

Verb : Has not: negative form of the auxiliary has

Verb : (archaic, dialectal, literary) Has not/does not have: negative form of the lexical has

ain't

Verb : Are not, aren’t; is not, isn’t.

Verb : Am not.

Verb : Have not, haven’t; has not, hasn’t, when used as an auxiliary.

not touch with a ten-foot pole

Verb : (idiomatic) To avoid something at all costs; to refuse to associate with something; signifies a strong aversion.

Verb : (idiomatic) To be unable (perhaps figuratively) to approach something or someone.

wasn't

Verb : (chiefly in the negative, auxiliary) Contraction of was + not. [(now colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.]

bettern't

Verb : (nonstandard) [[[had]]] better not (used in a tag question).

can wait

Verb : (informal, sarcastic) A response to can't wait that negates the phrase.

Verb : Used to dismiss a concern considered urgent by another party.

not want to do that

Verb : (intransitive, stative, idiomatic) To be in a state of doing or being about to do something that one is likely to regret; usually unknowingly or forgetfully.

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see not, want, do, that.

hadn't

Verb : (informal) Contraction of had + not (negative auxiliary). [(auxiliary, followed by a past participle) Used to form the past perfect tense, expressing an action that took place prior to a reference point that is itself in the past.]

unbefit

Verb : (transitive, archaic, rare) Not to befit or suit; to be inappropriate for.

Verb : (transitive, archaic, rare) To make unfit or unsuitable.

haven't

Verb : have not (negative form of have)

shouldna

Verb : (colloquial) Contraction of should + not + have. [Ought to; indicating opinion, advice, or instruction, about what is required or desirable.]

Verb : Alternative form of shouldnae.

oughtn't

Verb : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) (US, Philippines, dated, rare) ought not (negative auxiliary).

doesnt

Verb : Misspelling of doesn't. [Does not (negative auxiliary)]

couldn't carry a note in a bucket

Verb : (idiomatic, slang, of a person) Not musically talented, unable to sing.

nould

Verb : (obsolete) Would not.

arent

Noun : A surname.

be not to know

Verb : (UK, especially in the past) To not have the required information.

Verb : Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see be, not, to, know.

unexist

Verb : (intransitive, colloquial) To not exist, or to cease to exist.

Verb : (transitive, colloquial) To cause (someone or something) to not exist.

wan't

Verb : Misspelling of won't. [will not (negative auxiliary); used to indicate a future non-occurring action.]

Verb : Misspelling of want. [(transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave, hanker, or demand.]

woon't

Verb : Pronunciation spelling of won't. [will not (negative auxiliary); used to indicate a future non-occurring action.]

shou'dn't

Verb : Obsolete form of shouldn’t.

unmove

Verb : (intransitive, nonstandard) To not move; remain still or motionless; remain in place.

Verb : (transitive) To move (something) back to its original place; undo or reverse the motion of.

Verb : (transitive) To move away; remove.

shan't

Verb : (UK, Ireland, colloquial; archaic in US, Canada; dated in Australia, New Zealand) Contraction of shall + not (negative auxiliary). [Used before a verb to indicate the simple future tense in the first person singular or plural.]

unsay

Verb : To withdraw, retract (something said).

Verb : To cause something not to have been said; to make it so that one never said something (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive).

far be it

canna

Noun : Any member of the genus Canna of tropical plants with large leaves and often showy flowers.

Noun : (historical) A measure of length in Italy, varying from six to seven feet.

Noun : An island in the Small Isles, Inner Hebrides, Highland council area, Scotland, joined to the island of Sanday by a bridge.

abhor

Verb : (transitive) To regard (someone or something) as horrifying or detestable; to feel great repugnance toward.

Verb : (transitive) To turn aside or avoid; to keep away from; to reject.

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To feel horror, disgust, or dislike (towards); to be contrary or averse (to); construed with from.

acatalepsy

Noun : Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

ace

Noun : (card games) A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.

Noun : (tennis, volleyball) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.

Noun : (sometimes attributive) An expert at something; a maverick, genius; a person of supreme talent.

aeropause

Noun : The region of the atmosphere above which it is not possible for aircraft to fly

ageless

Adjective : Always appearing youthful; never seeming to age.

Adjective : (relative to past) Having existed for so great a period of time that its longevity cannot be expressed.

Adjective : (relative to future) Continuing infinitely or indefinitely.

agnostic

Adjective : Doubtful or uncertain about the existence or demonstrability of God or other deity.

Noun : A person who holds to a form of agnosticism, especially uncertainty of the existence of a deity.

Adjective : (informal, usually with a prepositional phrase) Having no firmly held opinions on something.

alie

ambiguity

Noun : (uncountable) The state of being ambiguous; the state of leaving room for more than one interpretation.

Noun : (countable) An instance of this state: words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from the context.

analphabet

Noun : A person who does not know the letters of the alphabet; a partly or wholly illiterate person.

Adjective : Ignorant of the letters of the alphabet; partly or wholly illiterate.

analysis paralysis

Noun : The condition of being unable to make a decision due to the availability of too much information which must be processed in order for the decision to be made.

anaphora

Noun : (rhetoric) The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis.

Noun : (linguistics) An expression that refers to a preceding expression.

Noun : (Christianity) The most solemn part of the Divine Liturgy or the Mass during which the offerings of bread and wine are consecrated as body and blood of Christ.

anu

Noun : (Sumerian, Assyrian and Babylonian mythology) A sky-god, the god of heaven, lord of constellations, king of gods, spirits and demons, who dwelt in the highest heavenly region.

Noun : A diminutive of the female given names Anushka, Anusha, Anisha, or Ansuya.

Adjective : (aviation) Initialism of airplane nose up.

any

Verb : To even the slightest extent, at all.

apophatism

Noun : (theology) A theory of approaching knowledge of God through negative rather than positive assertions.

aprotic

Adjective : (chemistry, especially of a solvent) That does not contain (or cannot donate) a hydrogen ion (proton).

argue

Verb : (intransitive) To debate, disagree, or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints; to controvert; to wrangle.

Verb : (intransitive) To have an argument, a quarrel.

Verb : (transitive) To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).

arse

Noun : (Commonwealth, now vulgar) The buttocks or more specifically, the anus.

Noun : (chiefly UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, derogatory, slang) A stupid, pompous, arrogant, mean or despicable person.

Noun : (vulgar, slang, uncountable) Used in similes to express something bad or unpleasant.

athetosis

Noun : (medicine) A series of involuntary writhing movements of the limbs, typically bilateral and symmetric and predominantly affecting the distal parts of the limbs.

avidin

Noun : (biology) A tetrameric protein produced in the oviducts of birds, reptiles and amphibians and deposited in the whites of their eggs.

background noise

Noun : Any sound other than the sound being monitored (the primary sound); a form of noise pollution or interference.

bad block

Noun : (computer science) a block (usually one sector) that cannot reliably hold dat

bar

Noun : A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.

Noun : (countable, uncountable, metallurgy) A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.

Noun : A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.

barn door

Noun : The large door of a barn.

Noun : (humorous) Something large enough that a miss ought to be impossible.

Noun : (cricket) A player who blocks every ball.

bedpan

Noun : A pan used for urination and defecation while in bed, now usually for reasons of medical necessity or convenience.

being

Noun : The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state.

Noun : A living creature.

Noun : (philosophy) One's basic nature, or the qualities thereof; essence or personality.

blackhole

Noun : (chiefly attributive) Alternative form of black hole. [A place of punitive confinement; a lockup or cell; a military guardroom.]

Verb : Alternative form of black hole. [(transitive, Internet) To redirect (network traffic, etc.) nowhere; to discard (incoming traffic).]

blind bend

Noun : a curve or bend in the road that you cannot see around as you are drivin

blind corner

Noun : (U.S. title: Man in the Dark) a 1964 British second feature thriller film directed by Lance Comfort and starring William Sylvester, Barbara Shelley and Alexander Davion.

Noun : A blind corner or blind turn is a corner on a road where the view of what is behind the corner is obstructed.

Noun : a 1927 novel by the English author Dornford Yates (Cecil William Mercer).

blind curve

Noun : A dangerous curve on a roadway, around which drivers cannot see approaching traffic.

blind spot

Noun : (automotive) In driving, the part of the road that cannot be seen in the rear-view mirror or side-view mirror.

Noun : (figuratively) An inability to recognize a fact or think clearly about a certain topic, especially because of a prejudice.

Noun : (figuratively) A subject or area about which one is uninformed or misinformed, often because of a prejudice or lack of appreciation.

bound

Adjective : Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

Adjective : (with infinitive) Obliged (to).

Adjective : Confined or restricted to a certain place.

break seal

Noun : a seal that must be broken when first used and cannot easily be reseale

bridge

Noun : A construction or natural feature that spans a divide.

Noun : A construction spanning a waterway, ravine, or valley from a height, allowing for the passage of vehicles, pedestrians, trains, etc.

Noun : (anatomy) The upper bony ridge of the human nose.

bridged

Adjective : Equipped with a bridge (in many contexts).

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