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Definition: NEVER MIND |
NEVER MIND1. Do not regard it; it is of no consequence; no matter. Syn: To notice; mark; regard; obey. See Attend . |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Contempt | Interjection: a fig for; (unimportant); bah! never mind! away with! hang it! fiddlededee! |
Indifference | Interjection: never mind; Who cares? whatever you like, whatever. |
Insensibility | Phrase: never mind; macht nichts, it is of no consequence; (unimportant); it cannot be helped; nothing coming amiss; it is all the same to, it is all one to. |
Neglect | Interjection: never mind, no matter, let it pass. |
Unimportance | Interjection: no matter! pish! tush! tut! pshaw! pugh! pooh,pooh-pooh! fudge! bosh! humbug! fiddlestick, fiddlestick end! fiddlededee! never mind! n'importe! what signifies it, what boots it, what of it, what of that, what matter, what's the odds, a fig for' stuff and nonsense, stuff! nonsense! |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: NEVER MIND |
| Specialty definitions using "NEVER MIND": INAUSPICIOUSLY ♦ MIND. (references) |
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Screenplays | Never mind son, you just might meet him if you carry on like that (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; writing credit: Guy Ritchie) Let my heart be hardedned, and never mind how high the cost may grow, this will still be so: I will never let your people go. (The Prince of Egypt; writing credit: Ken Harsha; Carole Holliday) Her bird cage and her Chinese fan. But she says, never mind about sending any clothes (My Fair Lady; writing credit: George Bernard Shaw; Alan Jay Lerner) Did you ever see him in oh, never mind! (The Smiling Lieutenant; writing credit: Henri Bataille; Felix Dormann) On second thought, never mind the pyjamas (Bulldog Drummond; writing credit: Herman C. McNeile; Sidney Howard) | |
Lyrics | It ain't ,no, never mind (Fly Away From Here; performing artist: Aerosmith) He ruled the Russian land and never mind the Czar (Rasputin; performing artist: BONEY M) So never mind the darkness (November Rain; performing artist: Guns N' Roses) Oh never mind I'm just a little homesick (Ain't No Place Like Home; performing artist: Prince) Never mind the TV (One Of Those Days; performing artist: Whitney Houston; writing credit: Kevin Briggs, Patrice Stewart, Dwight Reynolds, Ernest Isley, Marvin Isley, Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley, Christopher Jasper, Warren Zevon & David Lindell) | |
Clever | In statesmanship get the formalities right, never mind about the moralities. (references; author: Mark Twain) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Feel the Width Never Mind the Quality (1968) Never Mind the Horrocks (1996) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Never mind the jolts, Dovey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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George Berkeley | What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. |
Margaret Oliphant | Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better. |
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A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Never mind. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | INAUSPICIOUSLY, adv. In an unpromising manner, the auspices being unfavorable. Among the Romans it was customary before undertaking any important action or enterprise to obtain from the augurs, or state prophets, some hint of its probable outcome; and one of their favorite and most trustworthy modes of divination consisted in observing the flight of birds -- the omens thence derived being called auspices. Newspaper reporters and certain miscreant lexicographers have decided that the word -- always in the plural -- shall mean "patronage" or "management"; as, "The festivities were under the auspices of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Body-Snatchers"; or, "The hilarities were auspicated by the Knights of Hunger." A Roman slave appeared one day Before the Augur. "Tell me, pray, If --" here the Augur, smiling, made A checking gesture and displayed His open palm, which plainly itched, For visibly its surface twitched. A denarius (the Latin nickel) Successfully allayed the tickle, And then the slave proceeded: "Please Inform me whether Fate decrees Success or failure in what I To-night (if it be dark) shall try. Its nature? Never mind -- I think 'Tis writ on this" -- and with a wink Which darkened half the earth, he drew Another denarius to view, Its shining face attentive scanned, Then slipped it into the good man's hand, Who with great gravity said: "Wait While I retire to question Fate." That holy person then withdrew His scared clay and, passing through The temple's rearward gate, cried "Shoo!" Waving his robe of office. Straight Each sacred peacock and its mate (Maintained for Juno's favor) fled With clamor from the trees o'erhead, Where they were perching for the night. The temple's roof received their flight, For thither they would always go, When danger threatened them below. Back to the slave the Augur went: "My son, forecasting the event By flight of birds, I must confess The auspices deny success." That slave retired, a sadder man, Abandoning his secret plan -- Which was (as well the craft seer Had from the first divined) to clear The wall and fraudulently seize On Juno's poultry in the trees. G.J. |
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Expression using "NEVER MIND": Interjection: never mind. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
never mind the bollocks | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "NEVER MIND"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | s'ka rëndësi, s'ka gjë (don't mention it, no matter, nothing), s'ka gajle (it doesn't matter), mos u mërzit. (various references) | |
Arabic | لا بأس . (various references) | |
Bulgarian | няма значение (it recks little, skip it), нищо (naught, negation, nil, none, nothing, nothingness, nought, ought). (various references) | |
Chinese | '"麼 (it doesn't matter, it's nothing, nothing), 不要緊 (but, it doesn't matter, it looks all right, not serious, unimportant). (various references) | |
Czech | nevadí (does not matter), nemìj péèi. (various references) | |
Danish | det gør ikke noget (it doesn't matter, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Dutch | het doet er niet toe (it doesn't matter, that's all right, that's okay, you're welcome), datisnieterg (it doesn't matter, that's all right, that's okay, you're welcome), datgeeftniet (it doesn't matter, that's all right, that's okay, you're welcome), dat is niet erg (it doesn't matter, that's all right, you're welcome), dat geeft niet (it doesn't matter, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tio ne gravas (it doesn't matter). (various references) | |
Finnish | vähät siitä (never mind ! no matter!), älkää ujostelko minua (never mind me!), älä välitä siitä (never mind !). (various references) | |
French | tant pis, cela ne fait rien, ça ne fait rien, ça fait rien. (various references) | |
German | schon gut (all right, okay), macht nichts (no matter), geschweige denn (let alone). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אין "בר (it does not matter). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ne törõdj vele, sebaj (that's nothing to weep about, that's nothing to weep over), mindegy (all the same, it's all one, it's all the same, it's just the same, just the same). (various references) | |
Icelandic | það var ekkert (it doesn't matter, that's all right, you're welcome), það gerir ekkert til (it doesn't matter, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Italian | non importa. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ネオン管 (bottleneck, drip-dry, import restriction list, Is it so?, nack chain, Nebraska, neck, neckerchief, necking, necklace, neckline, necktie, necktie pin, necrophilia, necrophobia, nector, negative, negative color, neglect, negligee, negotiation, Nelson, neon tube, nepenta, nephron, nephrosis, nepotism, Neptune, neptunium, Nescafe, -ness, nest, nest table, nesting, Nestle, net, net ball, Net citizen, net in, net play, net price, net score, netball falling in, netizen, net-mask, nettopology, network, network administration, networker, networking, Nevada, Never give up!, Never happen, next, no carbon, no-iron, permanent snowpatch, Really?, several tables inside each other, tie, wash and wear), 御心配なく (don't worry), "心配なく (don't worry). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ネバーマインド , "し"ぱいなく (don't worry). (various references) | |
Malay | tidak apa apa (it doesn't matter, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Manx | s'cummey. (various references) | |
Norwegian | ingen årsak (it doesn't matter, that's all right, you're welcome), det gjør ikke noe (it doesn't matter, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evernay indmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nãoimporta (don't mention it, it doesn't matter, that's all right, that's okay, you're welcome), poucoimporta (don't mention it, it doesn't matter, that's all right, that's okay, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Romanian | nu face nimic (idle, it doesn't matter, laze, lie about, muck about), n-are nimic (it doesn't matter), n-are importanţã (it doesn't matter, no object), atâta pagubã (good riddance to a bad bargain, good riddance to bad rubbish, no matter, so much the better). (various references) | |
Russian | неважно. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nije važno. (various references) | |
Spanish | no se preocupe (don't trouble, there), no importa (it doesn't matter, it makes no odds), no haga caso, es igual (it's all one). (various references) | |
Swedish | det gör ingenting (it doesn't matter, no matter, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่ต้องห่วง. (various references) | |
Turkish | zarar yok, takma kafana (keep your hair on), boşver (who cares), aldırma (don't worry, heed). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | нічого (nihil, nil, nothing), не хвилюйтеся (don't worry), не звертайте уваги. (various references) | |
Zulu | akunandaba (it doesn't matter, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-m-n-n-r-v" | |
-1 letter: innerved. | |
-2 letters: ermined, innerve, nervine. | |
-3 letters: denier, derive, devein, dinner, driven, endive, endrin, envied, envier, ermine, indene, mender, minder, nereid, nerved, reined, reived, remend, remind, veined, veiner, vender, venine, venire, verdin, vermin. | |
-4 letters: denim, diene, dimer, diner, diver, drive, eider, emend, ender, inned, inner, merde, mined, miner, mired, nerve, never, nieve, reive, renin, rimed. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-e-i-m-n-n-r-v" | |
+4 letters: overdemanding, overdominance. | |
+5 letters: overdominances. | |
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