not especially

idiom

informal

—used to say that one is not very interested in doing something

"Would you like to go to a movie?" "No, not especially."

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Unless the question posed has a singular final answer, the likelihood is that your multiple expert personas are going to provide a multitude of viewpoints and not especially land on a single end-all response. —

Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025 Trump's demands on Europe to buy more oil and natural gas were not especially new. —

Josh Boak and Raf Casert The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 21 Dec. 2024 The name of Frank Auerbach, the British artist who died on November 11th, at the age of ninety-three, is not especially well known in the United States. —

Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024 Until Russia’s recent aggression, Ukrainians were not especially interested in joining NATO. —

Anton Grushetskyi, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for not especially

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