translation of "by any means"

Question

As in the sentence : It's not luxurious by any means.

1 machine translation put it as "de ninguna manera"

• No es lujoso de ninguna manera

another translation suggested "para nada"

• No es lujoso para nada

Does anyone agree or disagree that the two are the same?

Answer 1

I think that they are not synonymous.

And I think de ninguna manera would be "by no means" which doesn't mean the same as by any means in all contexts. (here, there isn't much difference)

We tried to accomplish it by any means possible. (we tried all possibly methods, some or all may have been succesful).

We could by no means accomplish it. (There existed no means to accomplish it.)

Likewise para nada and por ninguna manera can be synonymous or not depending on the context. (here they appear similar).