nonetheless

See also: none the less

English

Etymology

From Middle English *non-the-les, variant of no-the-les, noþeles, naþelees, from Old English nān þȳ lǣs, nā þē lǣs, nā þȳ lǣs, equivalent to none +‎ the +‎ less.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/

Adverb

nonetheless (not comparable)

1. (conjunctive) Nevertheless.
   • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206-7:

     Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

Synonyms

• (nevertheless): still, though, yet; see also Thesaurus:nevertheless

Translations

nevertheless

• Bengali: অথচ (bn) (ôthôc)
• Catalan: nogensmenys (ca), no obstant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 還是／还是 (zh) (háishì), 还是 (zh) (háishi), 然而 (zh) (rán'ér), 仍然 (zh) (réngrán)

• Czech: nicméně (cs)
• Danish: alligevel (da)
• Dutch: niettemin (nl)
• Finnish: silti (fi), kuitenkin (fi)
• French: néanmoins (fr)
• German: nichtsdestoweniger (de), nichtsdestotrotz (de)
• Italian: nondimeno, malgrado ciò, ciononostante (it)
• Japanese: にもかかわらず (ja) (nimo kakawarazu)
• Korean: 그럼에도 불구하고 (ko) (geureomedo bulguhago), 그렇지만 (ko) (geureochiman)
• Latin: tamen (la), nihilōminus
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: likevel (no), allikevel (no)

  Nynorsk: likevel

• Polish: niemniej jednak (pl), jednakże (pl), jednakowoż (pl)
• Portuguese: ainda assim (pt)
• Russian: тем не ме́нее (ru) (tem ne méneje)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: успркос томе

  Roman: usprkos tome

• Spanish: no obstante (es), sin embargo (es)
• Swedish: inte desto mindre (sv), hur som helst (sv)
• Telugu: అయినా (te) (ayinā)
• Ukrainian: тим не менш (tym ne menš), все-таки́ (vse-taký), одна́к (odnák), про́те (próte)
• Venetian: epura (vec), epur