Usually means: No reason to avoid it.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word why not:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. why not: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. why-not: Merriam-Webster
  3. why-not: Wordnik
  4. why not: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. why-not, why not: Wiktionary
  6. Why-not: Dictionary.com
  7. Why Not (George Cables album), Why Not (Hilary Duff single), Why Not (song), Why Not: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Why-not: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. why-not: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Why-not: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. why-not: FreeDictionary.org
  12. Why-not: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Why not, why not: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Why Not, why not: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (why not)

adverb:  Why is that not true?
adverb:  (rhetorical) Used to state that one has no objection to and approves of a proposal.
adverb:  (rhetorical) Used to introduce a proposal.

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