neither
Both options rejected
Neither can function as any of four parts of speech but its mission is always the same: to negate.
It may negate two things or one of two things, the other of which is negated by some other word: Neither of us had read the book. I don’t care for seafood and neither does my wife. The service was neither prompt nor friendly.
Negative conjunction
no one · nary · without · lacking · absent · devoid · exclusive · mutually exclusive
Not favoring any side
- impartialShowing no preference
- noncommittalNot expressing clear opinion
- uncommittedNot bound to anything
- undecidedNot having chosen
ambivalent · indifferent · disinterested · detached · uninvolved · disengaged · apathetic · fence-sitting
nor
Negative conjunction
nobody · no one · nary · without · lacking · absent · devoid · exclusive · mutually exclusive · binary
neutral
Not favoring any side
- impartialShowing no preference
- noncommittalNot expressing clear opinion
- uncommittedNot bound to anything
undecided · ambivalent · indifferent · disinterested · detached · uninvolved · disengaged · apathetic · fence-sitting · unaligned
denial
Refusal to accept reality
negate · nullify · dismiss · repudiate · contradict · disagree · dissent · oppose · rebuff · veto
- me neitherShared negative agreement
- neither here nor thereUnrelated to the matter
- neither … norDual negation conjunction
- neither fish nor fowlBelonging to no category
- neither norDual exclusion conjunction
- make neither head nor tail ofFail to understand whatsoever
either, whether, ornament, ornamental, nether, unornamented, hither, whither, thither