Meaning of by no means | Babel Free
baɪ nəʊ ˈmiːnzEquivalents
العربية
أبدا
Čeština
v žádném případě
فارسی
به هیچ وجه
Suomi
ei millään tavalla
ei missään nimessä
ei missään nimessä
ihmeessä
ihmeessä
läheskään
mitenkään
suinkaan
suurin surminkaan
Français
aucunement
en aucun cas
en aucune façon
en aucune manière
pas du tout
pas le moins du monde
Հայերեն
ամենևին
Íslenska
alls ekki
ქართული
არანაირად
Kurdî
neka
Latviešu
nekā
Монгол
харин ч
Português
coisa nenhuma
de modo algum
nem a pau
nem que a vaca tussa
porra nenhuma
só por cima do meu cadáver
Tiếng Việt
ai đời
Examples
“By no means am I suggesting that euthanasia should be outlawed, but rather that we should look⟳ at its inherent risks.”
“Is that all you’ve got to say⟳? ―By no means. Let⟳ me explain⟳ further.”
“For the Maine Garden, I doe not Deny⟳, but there ſhould be ſome Faire Alleys, ranged on both Sides, vvith Fruit Trees; And ſome Pretty Tufts of Fruit Trees, And Arbours vvith Seats, ſet in ſome Decent Order⟳; but theſe to be, by no Meanes, ſet too thicke; […]”
“I was last⟳ night at the Funeral, where a confident lover in the play⟳, speaking of his mistress, cries out—"Oh that Harriot! to fold⟳ these arms about the waist of that beauteous, struggling, and at last⟳ yielding fair!" Such an image as this ought by no means to be presented to a chaste and regular audience.”
“Cecilia, thanking him for the offer⟳, ſaid ſhe meant novv to make⟳ her acknovvledgments for all the trouble⟳ he had already taken, but by no means purpoſed to give⟳ him any more.”
“It is by no means as the greatest of poets that Goethe deserves the pride and praise⟳ of his German countrymen. It is as the clearest, the largest, the most helpful thinker of modern times.”
“[S]he was by no means tender-hearted or easily accessible to the feelings of others, like⟳ most country-bred people, who always retain⟳ in their souls something of the horny hardness of the paternal hands.”
“The compilers of the volume may very naturally have⟳ been tempted to strain⟳ a point⟳ so as to admit⟳ some specimen from the hand of the most potent if by no means the most perfect of English poetesses [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]: but in that case they would have⟳ done much better, in my humble opinion, to select⟳ the beautiful and simple memorial stanzas, […]”
“He wrote to her the next day, sent her a five-pound note⟳, and at the end⟳ of his letter said that if she were very nice and cared to see⟳ him for the week-end he would be glad to run⟳ down; but she was by no means to alter any plans she had made.”
“Every photographer of experience⟳ has his own⟳ theories and methods of working, but for the last⟳ 14 years I have⟳ used a Leica exclusively, and have⟳ found it best adapted to the somewhat exacting demands of railway photography, which is by no means an easy branch of the art.”
“Well, during our short staycation at Humberston Fitties, just south of Cleethorpes, we cycled through the very unspoilt Lincolnshire Wolds, which are by no means flat and boring as conventional wisdom about the county suggests.”
CEFR level
C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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