Relaxed rejection

The answer

NOPE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the NOPE answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2014; first recorded in 1996. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for NOPE

Every other clue in this collection answered by NOPE, most used first.

• "Uh-uh" - used 156 times, most recently in 2026
• Slangy refusal - used 47 times, most recently in 2026
• Slangy negative - used 46 times, most recently in 2017
• "Forget it!" - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• "Unh-unh" - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Slangy denial - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• "Huh-uh" - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Informal refusal - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• "Ain't happening" - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• "Don't think so" - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
• "Ain't gonna happen" - used 17 times, most recently in 2026
• "Nuh-uh" - used 16 times, most recently in 2025
• "Hard pass" - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• "I don't think so" - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• "Fat chance!" - used 11 times, most recently in 2015
• Slangy turndown - used 11 times, most recently in 2014
• Yep's opposite - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Opposite of "yep" - used 10 times, most recently in 2010
• "Absolutely not" - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Nah" - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Opposite of "yup" - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
• Yup's opposite - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Can't help ya" - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• "Not a chance" - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "Guess again" - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• "In your dreams" - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Slangy reply - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• "Sorry" - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Informal denial - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• "Negatory!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Slangy dissent - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• "Yup" opposite - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Relaxed - EASY, used 57 times
• __-back; relaxed - LAID, used 43 times
• Presidential rejection - VETO, used 38 times
• Relaxed state - EASE, used 17 times
• Russian rejection - NYET, used 17 times
• Relaxed pace - TROT, used 15 times

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