No Matter

Definition: No Matter

No Matter

Adverb

1. 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.
 

Synonyms: No Matter

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!

Crosswords: No Matter

Somebody who taught me that there are people willing to stick up for other people no matter what it costs them. (Dirty Dancing; writing credit: Eleanor Bergstein.)

You will bow down before me, Jor-El. I swear it, no matter that it takes an eternity! (Superman; writing credit: Jerry Siegel; Joe Shuster)

I just want you to know that no matter what you do, you're still gonna die. (Moonstruck; writing credit: John Patrick Shanley. Starring Cher as Loretta Castorini and Nicolas Cage as Ronny Cammareri.)

Sooner or later we've got to work at it no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz.)

No matter how clever he is, he still needs an exit visa or I should say two? (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

No matter where they take us (No Matter What; performing artist: Boyzone)

And my home's in Alabama, no matter where I lay my head ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama)

Can't get used to losin' you no matter what I try to do (Can't Get Used To Losing You; performing artist: Andy Williams)

Haunting me, everywhere, no matter what I do (Ghost Of You And Me; performing artist: BBMak)

See no matter what i will extend my arms to hug you (Life Story; performing artist: Black Rob)

Life lesson: No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously. (references; author: unknown)

No matter what you want to do, there's always something else that has to be done first. (references; author: unknown)

Paint! No Matter What (1999)

No Matter What Shape (performing artist: The T-Bones)

No Matter What (Party All Night) (performing artist: Toya)

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

Books

• No Matter How Thin You Slice It, It's Still Baloney (reference)

• Tabletop Gardens: Create 40 Intimate, Contained Gardens for the Home, No Matter the Season (reference)

• The Poker MBA: Winning in Business No Matter What Cards You're Dealt (reference)

• America's Greatest Places to Work with a Law Degree & How to Make the Most of Any Job, No Matter Where It Is (reference)

• What They Don't Teach You at Film School: 161 Strategies to Making Your Own Movie No Matter What (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Pot reefer spliff weed nickel joint roach dime bone bong hit hooch doobie grass gange shake smoke marijuana : no matter what you call it, don't call it harmless. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

No Matter How You Shake It... : ...Out Comes The Sodium. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Antiaircraft gun carriage. The leveling yoke for a thirty-seven millimeter antiaircraft gun carriage is cleaned in this bath before being painted. This yoke puts the gun on an even keel no matter what type of terrain the carriage rests upon. War program p. Credit: Library of Congress.

High school Victory Corps. In true commando style, this young student at Flushing High School, Queens, New York, is learning to take care of himself no matter what the circumstances may be. High cliffs and walls won't stop him when he is old enough to ser. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

In all these movements they bring to the front, as the leading question in each, the property question, no matter what its degree of development at the time. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But no matter! I shall have my lever.

No matter how many or how foul the sins if only you repent of them they will be forgiven you.

But he did have the right of first comment, no matter how silly his old mind might be.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Infant monitors, no matter what type, need to be more reliable. (references)

Eating any gluten, no matter how small an amount, can damage the intestine. (references)

No matter how old or young you are, too much exposure to loud noise can permanently damage your hearing. (references)

Business

Brief, eye-catching materials which can be skimmed through quickly will net more interest than a long document crammed with details, no matter how pertinent those details are. In many instances, the decision-maker will not be a native English speaker. (references)

Once of BT's latest Concert service offerings is Remote LAN Connect, which allows data and programs stored on a local network to be accessed remotely by users from a fixed-line telephone, cellular phone or the Internet, no matter how far away they are from the LAN. Data can be accessed at speeds of up to 28,8 kilobits per second and is carried by Covert's global managed network. (references)

Economic History

Laos

PUBLIC INVESTMENT IS LARGELY DIRECTED TOWARD INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT (ROAD CONSTRUCTION, IRRIGATION, ELECTRIFICATION, WATER SERVICE INSTALLATION), INDUSTRY, AND AGRICULTURE, WHICH TOGETHER ACCOUNTED FOR NEARLY 75% OF ALL PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN FY 97-98. IN FY 98-99 THE PROPORTION OF PUBLIC INVESTMENT DEVOTED TO THIS SECTOR DROPPED SLIGHTLY TO 70%. ALL PROPOSED FOREIGN INVESTMENT, NO MATTER HOW SMALL, IS SCREENED BY THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT CABINET AND MUST BE APPROVED BY THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE. (references)

Human Rights

Belgium

The law provides that Belgian courts have jurisdiction over such crimes no matter where they were committed, and it does not grant immunity to heads of state or government. (references)

Travel

Russia

However, the Embassy recommends that people declare the entire amount of cash they are importing no matter how small. (references)

Women

Iran

All women, no matter the age, must have the permission of their father or a living male relative in order to marry. (references)

Ghana

In addition FGM would be banned no matter how medically safe the procedure is made--dispelling a belief by some that FGM is acceptable as long as the girls' health is protected. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "no matter": it makes no matter ♦ no matter how ♦ no matter how late ♦ no matter how much ♦ no matter what ♦ no matter what happens ♦ no matter when ♦ no matter where ♦ To make no matter. Additional references.

Albanian

s'ka gjë (don't mention it, never mind, nothing). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حيثما (anywhere, no matter where, where, wheresoever, wherever, whither). (various references)

Chinese 

不論 (or, regardless of, whether, whether ... or ...), 不管 (regardless of), 別管 . (various references)

Czech

to nevadí (it does not matter). (various references)

Finnish

vaikka minne (no matter where), vaikka kuka (anybody, no matter who), olkoonpa se kuinka hyvä tahansa (no matter how good it is), olkoon hän kuka tahansa (no matter who he is, whoever he may be), milloin tahansa (at any time, no matter when, whenever), kuinka paljon tahansa (however much, no matter how much), kuinka hän koettikin (however he tried, no matter how much he tried), en parhaalla tahdollanikaan voinut (no matter how hard I tried I could not). (various references)

French

n'importe. (various references)

German

ganz gleich (no matter what happens). (various references)

Greek 

ότι κι αν κάνω (no matter what I do). (various references)

Indonesian

apapun (any, anything, no matter what). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

所で (by the way, even if, no matter what), 所嫌わず (anywhere, everywhere, indiscriminate, no matter where), どうと�'れる (how, in some way or other, much, no matter how hard one may try, nothing can be done, one way or another, quite, really, somehow, somehow or other, thanks, to fall down all of a heap, to topple over, very, with roaring sound), ガロア理論 (attitude that one must keep going no matter what, darkly tanned face, gallon, Galois theory, gamma, gauntlet, Ghandi, gumbo, gun, gun belt, gun mania, gun shop, Gundam plastic models, gunfight, gunfighter, gunman, gunner, intense, pounding of headache, sound of large bell, sound of scolding voice), 如何しても (after all, at any cost, at any rate, by all means, cravingly, in the long run, no matter what, surely). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

どうしても (after all, at any cost, at any rate, by all means, cravingly, in the long run, no matter what, surely), どうも (how, much, no matter how hard one may try, quite, really, somehow, thanks, very), ガンバリズ� (attitude that one must keep going no matter what), と�"ろきらわず (anywhere, everywhere, indiscriminate, no matter where), と�"ろで (by the way, even if, no matter what). (various references)

Pig Latin

onay attermay

Romanian

puţin intereseazã, atâta pagubã în ciuperci, atâta pagubã (good riddance to a bad bargain, good riddance to bad rubbish, never mind, so much the better). (various references)

Russian 

что (although, be certain that, be that the, be that towards, because [], because of what, circumstance that, contend that, except in so far as, fact is that, fact that, for this is that, how, i wonder what, idea that, if for no reason than, illusion that, inasmuch as, indication that, it appears that, it has come to my attention that, it is hereby agreed that, it is likely that, it lies in the fact that, judgement on the basis that, matter of fact, more so, no matter what, on condition that, on the basis that, on the ground that, point to the fact that, potential that, provided that, providing that, reason that, regardless of whether, sign that, so much so that, so that, suggestion that, that, the best that, the problem is that, the thought that, thing is, this is because, to the extent that, to the point that, what, which, with the assumption that), когда (anytime, by the time, by the time that, except as, from the time at which, just when, no matter when, now that, rue the day, when, whenever, whensoever), как (after, after where, as, as is, as it is, how, in the same order that, it is long time since, like, no matter how, not after, not until, nothing else than, pass since, same as, so, what a), независимо от того (no matter how, no matter what, no matter when, regardless of whether). (various references)

Swedish

det gör ingenting (it doesn't matter, never mind, that's all right, you're welcome). (various references)

Turkish

mühim değil (not important, not that it matters), önemi yok (it doesn't matter, it makes no matter). (various references)

cuilibet, qualibet, quamlibet, quaslibet, quemlibet, quilibet, quodlibet, quolibet. (various references)

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

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: tomenta, tonearm, torment.

-2 letters: atoner, attorn, enamor, marten, matron, matter, mentor, moaner, natter, notate, omenta, ornate, ratten, ratton, rotate, rotten, torten.

-3 letters: ament, amort, antre, armet, atone, enorm, manor, mater, matte, meant, menta, metro, monte, morae, motet, motte, namer, noter, oaten, oater, orate, ottar, otter, ramen, ramet, reman, roman, rotte, tamer, tanto, tarot.

+2 letters: antemortem, assortment, attornment, marionette, monetarist, portamenti, portamento, terminator, tournament, tramontane.

+3 letters: actinometer, actinometry, assortments, attornments, commentator, compartment, demonstrate, easternmost, impetration, importunate, interatomic, marionettes, metrication, monetarists, permutation, portamentos, portmanteau, protonemata, remonstrant, remonstrate, termination, terminators, tournaments, tramontanes, treponemata.

+4 letters: accouterment, accoutrement, actinometers, actinometric, commentators, compartments, contemplator, demonstrated, demonstrates, demonstrator, determinator, enterostomal, exterminator, fermentation, impetrations, intermontane, magnetometer, magnetometry, menstruation, metrications, metropolitan, nitromethane, nontreatment, permutations, portmanteaus, portmanteaux, protonematal, reformatting, remonstrants, remonstrated, remonstrates, remonstrator, remotivating, remotivation, stenothermal, terminations, transmontane, ultramontane.