Meanings
- USdatedIt doesn't matter, it's unimportant, it doesn't make any difference.
"Did you fail your exam?" "Yes, but no matter. I'll just study harder next time."
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It seems that Doug's coat has gone missing. Oh, well, no matter: we can always buy a new one, now can't we?
My Aunt Rachel brought Jane's dresses for me to wear/Perfectly Good Clothes/And I should've been glad to get them/Perfectly Good Clothes/No matter they didn't fit quite right
1988, Kate Rushin, “The Black Back-Ups”, in Barbara Smith, editor, Home Girls: A Black Feminist AnthologySadly, [Anna] Wintour did not control the weather, which was disappointingly inclement. But, no matter, because the event was awash with a “tsunami of love”.
2025 June 21, Jo Ellison, “The Bezos merger we all want a piece of”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 22
- Irrespective of, regardless of, in spite of.
We can fix your plumbing no matter the problem.
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As an experienced geologist, he can identify any rock no matter where he finds it.
No matter what the excuse, you must not be late.
I'll pick you up at the airport on Friday no matter when your flight arrives.
No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46The attainment of the skills of elementary reading occurred some time ago for almost all who read this book. Nevertheless, we continue to experience the problems of this level of reading, no matter how capable we may be as readers.
1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 17
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Shortened from earlier it makes no matter, it is no matter.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 無論 /无论, 不管
- 無論 /无论 (wúlùn)regardless of
- 不管 (bùguǎn)regardless of
- 不論 /不论 (búlùn)regardless of
Esperanto ne gravas
- ne gravasit's unimportant
French peu importe, ça ne fait rien
- peu importeit's unimportant
- ça ne fait rienit's unimportant
- peu importeregardless of
- n'importeregardless of
- qu'importeregardless of
German egal
- egalregardless of
Greek δεω πειράζει, δεν πειράζει
- δεω πειράζει (deo peirázei)it's unimportant
- δεν πειράζει (den peirázei)regardless of
Hindi चाहे
- चाहे (cāhe)regardless of
Hungarian mindegy, nem számít
- mindegyit's unimportant
- nem számítit's unimportant
- nem érdekesit's unimportant
- akár-regardless of
- bár-regardless of
- such as akármilyenregardless of
- bárhogyan etc.regardless of
Icelandic skiptir ekki máli, sama hve
- skiptir ekki máliit's unimportant
- sama hveregardless of
Japanese ……とも, ...でも
- ……とも (tomo)regardless of
- ...でも (demo)regardless of
Latvian vienalga
- vienalgait's unimportant
Lithuanian nieko tokio
- nieko tokioit's unimportant
Polish nieważne, nieistotne
- nieważneit's unimportant
- nieistotneit's unimportant
- nieważneregardless of
Portuguese não importa, independente de
- não importaregardless of
- independente deregardless of
Russian незави́симо от того́, нева́жно
- незави́симо от того́ (nezavísimo ot tovó)regardless of
- нева́жно (nevážno)regardless of
- безотносительно (bezotnositelʹno)regardless of
Spanish no importa, sin importar
- no importaregardless of
- sin importarregardless of
Swedish spelar ingen roll, oavsett
- spelar ingen rollit's unimportant
- oavsettregardless of
- änregardless of
Vietnamese dù gì đi nữa
- dù gì đi nữaregardless of
Welsh dim bwys
- dim bwysit's unimportant
Cite this entry
no matter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20matter
“no matter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20matter. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “no matter,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/no%20matter.
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