Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

despite that

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English

Syllables: de-spite that
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

conj

despite the fact that, despite [+ gerund], in spite of, although, even though

Example Sentences

"Ballybogoin's Ulster unionists and Irish nationalists, despite that they had been mired in political violence for nearly thirty years and appear to possess identities that correspond to those made in their seventeenth-century encounters, negotiated their identities through everyday practices in the varied social spaces they occupied."
"Despite that I now know that my chest pains are not at all dangerous, if the episode lasts for any amount of time, I start to panic."

Synonyms

albeit much as

Questions

What does despite that mean?: despite the fact that, despite [+ gerund], in spite of, although, even though

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