despite

Forms

Plural: despites

Definitions

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1.Evil feeling; malice, spite, annoyance.
- And for these Corcyraeans, neither receive them into alliance in our despite, nor be their abettors in crime.

Preposition
A word placed before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show its relationship to another part of the sentence.

1.In spite of, not with standing.
- Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage.
- Despite being a near-mirror image my of right, my left hand is terrible at these stuff.

Frequency

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By learning goal

Everyday conversation: Rare
General reading & writing: Common
Academic: Uncommon
Literature: Rare

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Word family

spite

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English despit, dispit, from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”).

The preposition is derived from Middle English dispit, itself derived from the phrase in dispit of (in despite of).

NounNoun×A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

PrepPreposition×A word placed before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show its relationship to another part of the sentence.

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Word family

Noun
A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Preposition
A word placed before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show its relationship to another part of the sentence.