Synonyms for jot


Grammar : Verb
Spell : jot
Phonetic Transcription : dÊ’É’t


Définition of jot

Origin :
  • 1520s, borrowing of Latin jota, variant spelling of Greek iota "the letter -i-," the smallest letter in the alphabet, hence the least part of anything.
  • verb scribble down
Example sentences :
  • Meanwhile, the passion of the lover abated not one jot, or for an instant.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • But before I remove one jot of these stains, I must hear the whole from you.
  • Extract from : « The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby » by Charles Dickens
  • Whether he were in the humour to profit by it, mattered not a jot.
  • Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens
  • I found that his imprisonment had not made him one jot the wiser.
  • Extract from : « The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, Complete » by Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
  • Most people do not care a jot whether their children go to one or the other.
  • Extract from : « The Curse of Education » by Harold E. Gorst
  • There are a few things which, in the event of accident, I will jot down in writing.
  • Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume II (of II) » by Charles James Lever
  • Not in one jot or tittle would it suffer in the authority of its teaching.
  • Extract from : « The Soul of a People » by H. Fielding
  • Three days had passed, and he had not broken his vow—no, not in one jot or tittle.
  • Extract from : « The Nebuly Coat » by John Meade Falkner
  • No, just jot down a note or two, to clinch that idea of ours in the right shape.
  • Extract from : « The Story of a Play » by W. D. Howells
  • We boys make lots of fun of her, but she doesn't care a jot.
  • Extract from : « We Ten » by Lyda Farrington Kraus

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