neither
∞
1.0
- pronoun
- /ˈnaɪðər/
- It's always neither good nor bad because it always just is.
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Watch on YouTubeTo seek such things is neither right nor wrong.
- To seek such things is neither right nor wrong.
- But most of your mass doesn't come from the Higgs mechanism, and neither does all of the stuff that you see around you.
- Though to be clear, the companies I'm referring to there are not NVIDIA or AMD, neither of which are struggling to remain profitable.
- And it may be the case that neither of those is where a de facto burden of proof rests.
- Some of us just look for peace, some find freshhips, other love, some seek both and neither have.
Examples
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To seek such things is neither right nor wrong.
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So here we have Alice who says Bob is lying, but then Bob says neither of us is lying.
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But neither one of us want to give an inch.
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Tristan has his clothes, but neither one of us have shoes.
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Because if you're not convinced, neither will your clients be.
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Harpigus had no idea, and neither did Astigis.
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I sighed and tried levity, "Neither did I, Gabriel, but life goes on."
Fiction book (1995) -
Alice didn't want to go to the party, and I felt the same; neither of us was interested.
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She didn't like pizza, and neither did her brother.
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When it started raining, neither of the two friends had an umbrella.
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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8.1
Not clearly one thing or another so people cannot decide what it is
An unclear thing that does not help you understand or decide
Surface Forms
Morphology
neither = either (transparent) = ne + either
Meaning is directly negation of 'either' (i.e., 'not either'), so learners who know 'either' and basic negation can derive it.
Etymology
Neither is simply either with an old ne- meaning 'not' added to the front, so it originally meant 'not either'. That's why neither means 'not one or the other'.