nary
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9.9
- adjective
- /ˈnɛəri/
- Archaic
- We'd had nary to eat but parched corn since October.
Examples
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We ain't got the time and nary inclination to gentle you boys any further!
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Nary a shot is wasted.
Blog text (14) -
While participants scrutinize every last detail of Saudi, the potential of Iraq gets nary a mention.
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Jim Calhoun showed up in Storrs in May 1986, with nary a Froyo World in sight.
Blog text (26) -
Sure, some of us manage to get through it all with great joy in our hearts and nary a hurt feeling to consider, but many of us experience other emotions and have moments when we'd like nothing better than to chuck it all for a week in some other part of the world, preferably one without phones or email!
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After hours of searching the field, they found nary a single clue about the missing child.
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In the pantry, they discovered nary a crumb left of the birthday cake.
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He arrived at the meeting with nary a thought about his presentation.
Synonyms
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9.9
A word before a noun that means not any
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nary comes from saying not + a very quickly, like the phrase 'not a' spoken so fast it joins into one word. So, Nary means 'not a single' and is used to stress that there is not even one of something.