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    [bət]
    conjunction
    1. used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned:
      "he stumbled but didn't fall" · "this is one principle, but it is not the only one" · "the problem is not that they are cutting down trees, but that they are doing it in a predatory way" · "I am clean but you are dirty"
    2. used to indicate the impossibility of anything other than what is being stated:
      "one cannot but sympathize" · "there was nothing they could do but swallow their pride" · "they had no alternative but to follow"
    3. used to introduce a response expressing a feeling such as surprise or anger:
      "but that's an incredible saving!" · "but why?"
    4. used after an expression of apology for what one is about to say:
      "I'm sorry, but I can't pay you"
    5. archaic
      without it being the case that:
      "it never rains but it pours"
    preposition
    1. except; apart from; other than:
      "in Texas, we were never anything but poor" · "the last but one" · "I trusted no one but him"
      • used with repetition of certain words to give emphasis:
        "nobody, but nobody, was going to stop her"
    adverb
    but (adverb)
    1. no more than; only:
      "he is but a shadow of his former self" · "choose from a colorful array of oranges, cherries, and raspberries, to name but a few"
    noun
    but (noun) · buts (plural noun)
    1. an argument against something; an objection:
      "no buts—just get out of here" · "as with all these proposals, ifs and buts abound"
    Origin
    Old English be-ūtan, būtan, būta ‘outside, without, except’ (see by, out).
    but
    [bət]
    noun
    SCOTTISH ENGLISH
    but (noun) · buts (plural noun)
    1. an outer room, especially in a two-roomed cottage.
    Origin
    early 18th century: from but in the early sense ‘outside’, specifically ‘into the outer part of a house’.
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    Similar and Opposite Words
    conjunction
    1. used to introduce a phrase or clause contrasting with what has already been mentioned:
      yet
      nevertheless
      nonetheless
      even so
      however
      still
      notwithstanding
      all the same
      just the same
      at the same time
      be that as it may
      though
      although
      still and all
      withal
      natheless
      howbeit
      despite that
      in spite of that
      for all that
      Opposite:
      and
    2. used to indicate the impossibility of anything other than what is being stated:
      except
      (do) other than
      otherwise than
    preposition
    1. except; apart from; other than:
      apart from
      other than
      besides
      aside from
      with the exception of
      short of
      bar
      barring
      excepting
      excluding
      omitting
      saving
      outside of
      except (for)
      leaving out
      save (for)
      Opposite:
      including
      adverb
      1. no more than; only:
        only
        just
        simply
        merely
        nothing but
        no more than
        a mere
        nobbut
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