in spite of

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Preposition

in spite of

1. (idiomatic) Despite, irrespective of, notwithstanding.

   Synonyms: (obsolete) maugre, regardless of; see also Thesaurus:despite

   • 1898, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, Courier Dover Publications, published 1991, →ISBN, page 72:

     No evening I had passed at Bly had the portentous quality of this one; in spite of which—and in spite also of the deeper depths of consternation that had opened beneath my feet—there was literally, in the ebbing actual, an extraordinarily sweet sadness.

Usage notes

• In spite of is at once three words and one preposition; as may be seen in the 1898 quotation above, it is not separated during preposition-stranding (hence “in spite of which […] ”, never *“of which […] in spite”), but it may sometimes be separated by an adverb (as in “in spite also of”).
• The phrase is often misused where regardless of would be appropriate.

Derived terms

• in spite of oneself

Translations

despite — see also despite

• Arabic: رَغْم أَنَّ (raḡm ʔanna), رُغْم أَنَّ (ruḡm ʔanna), بِالرَّغْمِ مِن (bi-r-raḡm min), عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِن (ʕalā r-raḡmi min)

  Egyptian Arabic: راغم ان (raḡm en)

• Armenian: չնայած (hy) (čʻnayac)
• Bashkir: ҡарамаҫтан (qaramaśtan)
• Belarusian: нягле́дзячы на (njahljédzjačy na), наперако́р (napjerakór)
• Bulgarian: въпреки (bg) (vǎpreki), напук (bg) (napuk)
• Catalan: malgrat (ca), tot i
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 儘管／尽管 (zh) (jǐnguǎn), 不顧／不顾 (zh) (bùgù), 不管 (zh) (bùguǎn), 任憑／任凭 (zh) (rènpíng), 即使 (zh) (jíshǐ)

• Czech: přes (cs), vzdor (cs), navzdory (cs)
• Danish: på trods af, til trods for
• Dutch: ondanks (nl)
• Esperanto: malgraŭ (eo)
• Finnish: huolimatta (fi)
• French: malgré (fr), en dépit de (fr), bien que (fr)
• Georgian: მიუხედავად (miuxedavad)
• German: trotz (de)
• Greek: παρά (el) (pará)
• Hebrew: למרות (he) (lamrot)
• Hungarian: ellenére (hu), annak ellenére, hogy…, dacára (hu), dacára, hogy…
• Icelandic: þrátt fyrir
• Irish: d’ainneoin, in ainneoin, ainneoin
• Italian: nonostante (it), sebbene (it), malgrado (it)
• Japanese: (suffix) 〜にもかかわらず (ja) (-nimo kakawarazu) (〜にも関わらず)
• Korean: 에도 불구하고 (-e-do bulguhago)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: til tross for, tross (no)

  Nynorsk: trass

• Persian: با وجود (bâ vojud-e), با اینکه (bâ in-ke), علی رغم (fa) (alâ rağm-e)
• Polish: mimo (pl), pomimo (pl), wbrew (pl)
• Portuguese: a despeito de (pt), apesar de (pt)
• Romanian: cu toate că, în ciuda
• Russian: несмотря́ на (ru) (nesmotrjá na), вопреки́ (ru) (voprekí)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: упркос

  Roman: uprkos (sh)

• Slovak: napriek
• Spanish: a pesar de (es), pese a (es)
• Swedish: trots (sv)
• Tagalog: sa kabila ng
• Turkish: karşın (tr), rağmen (tr)
• Ukrainian: незважа́ючи на (nezvažájučy na), невважа́ючи на (nevvažájučy na), по́при (uk) (pópry), ми́мо (mýmo)

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