negative pregnant
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.36 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A denial which implies its affirmative opposite by seeming to deny only a qualification of the allegation and not the allegation itself. For example, "I have never consumed cocaine while on duty" might imply that the person making the statement had consumed cocaine on other occasions.