DESPITE meaning: Even in the presence of

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despite: Merriam-Webster
despite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
despite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
despite: Collins English Dictionary
despite: Vocabulary.com
Despite, Despite, despite: Wordnik
despite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
despite: Wiktionary
despite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
despite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
despite: Infoplease Dictionary
Despite, despite: Dictionary.com
despite: Online Etymology Dictionary
despite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Despite (band), Despite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Despite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
despite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
despite: Rhymezone
despite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
despite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
despite: FreeDictionary.org
despite: Mnemonic Dictionary
despite: TheFreeDictionary.com
despite: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
despite: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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despite: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (despite)

▸ noun:  (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
▸ noun:  Evil feeling; malice, spite, annoyance.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.

Similar:

spite, inspite, notwithstanding, owing, fact, although, though, because, amidst, while, more...

Opposite:

because, of, due, to, owing, to, thanks, to, as, a, result, of

Types:

anger, annoyance, contempt, frustration, irritation, rage, more...

Phrases:

in despite of, despite yourself, in despite, in your despite, despite oneself, more...

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