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IN DESPITE

Definition: IN DESPITE

IN DESPITE

1. In defiance of another's power or inclination.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: IN DESPITE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Opposition

In spite, in despite, in defiance; in the way, in the teeth of, in the face of; across; athwart, overthwart; where the shoe pinches; in spite of one's teeth.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: IN DESPITE

English words defined with "IN DESPITE": In despite of. (references)

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Use in Literature: IN DESPITE

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Thus only can we explain a war waged by humanity against humanity, in despite of humanity.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expression: IN DESPITE

Expression using "IN DESPITE": in despite of. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: IN DESPITE

Language Translations for "IN DESPITE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

megjithëse (albeit, although, even though, in despite of, tho', though, while), me gjithë (in despite of, in the teeth of). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inay espiteday

   

Romanian

  

în ciuda (despite, for all, in defiance of, in despite of, in spite of, in the face of, notwithstanding, with). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rağmen (after all, altho, although, as, but what, but yet, considering, despite, even though, for all, in despite of, in spite of, notwithstanding, spite of, whilst), karşın (albeit, altho, although, althought, as, but yet, despite, for all, in despite of, in spite of, notwithstanding, per contra, spite of). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: IN DESPITE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-p-s-t"

-2 letters: deities, despite, destine, dipnets, endites, indites, pieties, piniest, pinites, sienite, stipend, tiepins, tineids.

-3 letters: denies, dienes, dipnet, endite, espied, indies, indite, inside, instep, nested, peined, peised, pinite, pitied, pities, seined, seniti, sniped, spined, spinet, spited, stiped, teiids, teinds, tensed, tidies, tiepin, tineid.

-4 letters: deeps, deets, deist, denes, dense, dents, diene, diets, dines, dints.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-i-n-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: pteridines.

 

+2 letters: dissepiment, expeditions, impediments, ineptitudes, nephritides, serendipity.

 

+3 letters: dissepiments, distempering, intrepidness, meanspirited, pentamidines, predestining, predigesting, predigestion, presidential, redepositing, repositioned, sidestepping, spiritedness.

 

+4 letters: antipesticide, depreciations, diaphaneities, disrespecting, intrepidities, pedestrianism, pentaploidies, pneumonitides, predigestions, predilections, presanctified, presidentship, redescription, repristinated, serendipities, serendipitous, stipendiaries.

 

+5 letters: aminopeptidase, antidepression, appendicitises, decrepitations, dispensatories, dispiritedness, disruptiveness, dissipatedness, dryopithecines, encephalitides, hyposensitized, intrepidnesses, misinterpreted, nondescriptive, pancreatitides, pedestrianisms, polyneuritides, predesignating, predestinarian, predestinating, predestination, premeditations, presidentially, presidentships, pseudonymities, redescriptions, spiritednesses, superintending.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Fiction
4. Expressions
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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