notwithstanding

Speech parts

1. notwithstanding - Adverb

2. notwithstanding - Preposition

3. notwithstanding - Conjunction

5. notwithstanding - Postposition

Meaning

Without prevention, or obstruction from or by; in spite of.

Nevertheless; however; although; as, I shall go, notwithstanding it rains.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

nevertheless still yet despite nonetheless all the same in spite of however regardless anyway withal at the same time even so after all regardless of
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Antonyms

consequently wherefore thence about then following
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Phrases with the word

notwithstanding the fact that notwithstanding that notwithstanding the exigency to notwithstanding the requirement notwithstanding the requirement to notwithstanding how

Examples

In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many. Adam Ferguson

Notwithstanding a mendacious press; notwithstanding a subsidized gang of hirelings who have not ceased to traduce me, I have discharged all my official duties and fulfilled my pledges. And I say here tonight that if my predecessor had lived, the vials of wrath would have poured out upon him. Andrew Johnson

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences. John Wesley

Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant. Max Horkheimer

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. Pericles

The vicious, notwithstanding the sweetness of their words, and the honey on their tongues, have a whole storehouse of poison in their hearts. Hindi Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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