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Definition: Disregarding |
DisregardingAdverb1. In spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks; "he carried on regardless of the difficulties". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "disregarding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: DisregardingSynonyms: disregardless (adv), irregardless (adv), irrespective (adv), no matter (adv), regardless (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Insensibility | Indifferent, lukewarm; careless, mindless, regardless; inattentive; neglectful; disregarding. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Disregarding |
| English words defined with "disregarding": flagrantly ♦ Museless. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "disregarding": cutting supervisor ♦ GUARD, SCHOOL-CROSSING ♦ SUPERINTENDENT, LOGGING ♦ yarding supervisor. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He has deluged his country with innocent blood, disregarding the most sacred ties of affection, turning father against son, son against brother, in a bloodbath that defies description (Shaka Zulu; writing credit: Joshua Sinclair) | |
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 | Maximum penalty for disregarding blackout -- $300 fine and 90 days in jail. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pearl Harbor bombing. USS West Virginia a flame. Disregarding the dangerous possibilities of explosions, U.S. sailors man their boats at the side of the burning battleship, USS West Virginia, to better fight the flames started by Japanese torpedoes and bo. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | So if a law be in opposition to the constitution; if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the constitution; or conformably to the constitution, disregarding the law; the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Companies disregarding the quality aspect and solely focussing on price as the competitive factor, however, will experience difficulties. (references) | |
The Chinese government has announced its commitment to the idea of sustainable agriculture, in which long- and short-term environmental costs of damages and abatement are accounted for. Until fertilizer prices truly reflect all the costs involved, end-users will overuse fertilizers to gain short-term advantage, disregarding long-term effects. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Malaysia | In November 2000, the Shari'a high court in the state of Kelantan sentenced four persons to 3 years in jail for disregarding a lower court order to "recant" their allegedly heretical Islamic beliefs and "return to the true teachings of Islam." The High Court rejected their argument that Shari'a law had no jurisdiction over them because they had ceased to be Muslims. (references) |
Economic History | Chile | Due to Chile's close-knit market, bad reputations acquired by disregarding customer needs are hard to reverse. (references) |
Human Rights | Philippines | They also accused the Government of disregarding evidence they believed pointed to collusion between the AFP and the ASG. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Disregarding early impressions I have bestowed on the subject all the deliberation which its great importance and a just sense of my duty required, and the result is a settled conviction in my mind that Congress do not possess the right. |
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| "Disregarding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 98.92% of the time. "Disregarding" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 98.92% | 92 | 34,282 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.08% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 93 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
disregarding earlier even in involved starting suffering | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "disregarding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 忽视 (Disregarded, Neglect). (various references) | |
German | vernachlässigung (dereliction, ignoring, neglect), missachtend (disobeying), mißachtend (disobeying). (various references) | |
Korean | 무시 (Disregard, Neglecting, overriding). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | isregardingday.(various references) | |
Turkish | hiçe sayma (considering as no importance, paying no attention, setdown, slight). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Disregarding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disrgarding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "disregarding" (pronounced di'srigÄ"rding) |
| 6 | -g Ä" r d i ng | guarding, regarding. |
| 5 | -Ä" r d i ng | bombarding, discarding, retarding. |
| 4 | -r d i ng | according, affording, awarding, boarding, cording, hoarding, recording, rewarding, safeguarding, skateboarding, warding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, abiding, adding, aiding, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, Redding, Reding, refunding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retreading, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-g-i-i-n-r-r-s" | |
-3 letters: degrading, disregard, dredgings, grandsire, niggarded, regarding, regrading, reraising. | |
-4 letters: deairing, deraigns, deriding, desiring, draggers, draggier, drainers, dreading, dredging, earrings, gearings, gradines, grainers, grainier, grandsir, grangers, greasing, gridders, grinders, niggards, readding, readings, regrinds, rerising, residing, ringside, serranid, snaggier. | |
-5 letters: ageings, airings, angrier, arising, daggers, dairies, daisied, danders, dandier, dandies, dangers, darings, darners, denarii, deraign. | |
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