not at all
Speech parts
1. not at all - Adverb
2. not at all - Interjection
3. not at all - Phrase
Meaning
not at all
(emphatic) Not in the least.
He's not at all friendly towards his ex-wife.
(idiomatic) Used similarly to you're welcome, as a conventional reply to an expression of gratitude.
Thank you for this very thoughtful present. — Not at all.
(idiomatic) Don't worry about it (response to worry or an apology)
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A musician would not willingly consent that his lyre should be out of tune, nor a leader of a chorus that his chorus should not sing in the strictest possible harmony; but shall each individual person be at variance with himself, and shall he exhibit a life not at all in agreement with his words?
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.
I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador - an adventurer, if you want it translated - with all the curiosity, daring, and tenacity characteristic of a man of this sort.
It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.
A young man should not marry yet, an old man not at all.
He that hears much and speaks not at all Shall be welcome both in bower and hall.”.