Usually means: Unable to do or achieve.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word Cannot:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. cannot: Merriam-Webster
  2. cannot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cannot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cannot: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cannot: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cannot, cannot, cannot: Wordnik
  7. cannot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cannot: Wiktionary
  9. cannot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cannot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cannot: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cannot, cannot: Dictionary.com
  13. cannot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Cannot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Cannot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. cannot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Cannot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cannot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. cannot: FreeDictionary.org
  20. cannot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. cannot: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. cannot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cannot: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cannot: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cannot)

▸ verb:  Can not (be unable to).
▸ verb:  Be forbidden or not permitted to
▸ noun:  Something that cannot be done.
▸ noun:  A person who cannot do (something).

Similar:
can not, can't, ca'n't, cann't, couldn't, cannot but, cannott, can't but, cannot help, can't help, more...

Opposite:
can, may, able

Types:
can't, unable to, unable, more...

Phrases:
cannot bear, cannot but, cannot choose but, cannot help, cannot see the forest for the trees, more...



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Similar:
can not, can't, ca'n't, cann't, couldn't, cannot but, cannott, can't but, cannot help, can't help, more...

Opposite:
can, may, able

Types:
can't, unable to, unable, more...

Phrases:
cannot bear, cannot but, cannot choose but, cannot help, cannot see the forest for the trees, i cannot say, cannot see the wood for the trees, he cannot say, man cannot live by bread alone, she cannot say, more...



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