Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb In no way, manner, or degree; not at all.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In no way, manner, or degree; in no respect.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb no way, (in) no manner, definitely not.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in no manner

Etymologies

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From no +‎ -wise

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Examples

  • Modern heroes they, and in nowise different from the heroes of old time.

    Chapter III 2010

  • Had I been father or brother, the situation would have been in nowise different.

    Chapter 36 2010

  • But one stormy night, by an accident for which he was in nowise accountable, in overhauling a spare anchor-chain he had all the fingers of his left hand badly crushed.

    Chris Farrington, Able Seaman 2010

  • So, on this morning that Semper Idem was to leave the hospital, hale and hearty, Doctor Bicknell's geniality was in nowise disturbed by the steward's report, and he proceeded cheerfully to bring order out of the chaos of a child's body which had been ground and crunched beneath the wheels of an electric car.

    SEMPER IDEM 2010

  • Dick palmed a three-cornered sail needle through a set of broken pack straps, his good nature in nowise disturbed by the feminine cataclysm which was threatening to burst in the storm-beaten tent.

    SIWASH 2010

  • On this night things were, with one exception, in nowise different from any other night.

    A GOBOTO NIGHT 2010

  • It was the same story he had told her, though told now a little more fully, and in nowise did it conflict with the evidence of La Flitche and John.

    CHAPTER 28 2010

  • But he allowed this to be done because the dogs themselves in nowise interested him, and because their deaths emphasized the sacredness of the taboo.

    CHAPTER XVI 2010

  • In this the ancient was in nowise unlike the rest of his dark - skinned Melanesian race.

    CHAPTER 2 2010

  • The Russians were in nowise different from other men.

    The Lost Poacher 2010

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