Meanings
- despite the fact that, despite [+ gerund], in spite of, although, even though
Despite that I now know that my chest pains are not at all dangerous, if the episode lasts for any amount of time, I start to panic.
2008, Tami Brady, Strategies: A Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia Journey, →ISBN, page 541 more example
Ballybogoin's Ulster unionists and Irish nationalists, despite that they had been mired in political violence for nearly thirty years and appear to possess identities that correspond to those made in their seventeenth-century encounters, negotiated their identities through everyday practices in the varied social spaces they occupied.
2004, William F. Kelleher, The Troubles in Ballybogoin: Memory and Identity in Northern Ireland, →ISBN, pages 18–19
Synonyms & antonyms
conjunctiondespite the fact that, despite [+ gerund], in spite of, although, even though
Translations
French malgré que
- malgré queTranslations
Polish mimo tego, że, mimo to, że
- mimo tego, żeTranslations
- mimo to, żeTranslations
Turkish rağmen
- rağmenTranslations
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despite that. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/despite%20that
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