irregardless
/ˌɪɹɪˈɡɑɹdlɪs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Dear loved ones were unceremoniously hurried off home, irregardless to any previous arrangement, where they could sit down and recount the incidents of the trip to those who had been left behind, and where they were welcomed with the hearty greeting, "Home again.""
- "Mr. Mᶜg. [Rob Roy MacGregor], far from being unsusceptable of flatterry,^([sic]) irregardless of his own private interest, readily assented, and had a paper dictated to him to the following purpose: […]"
- ""Karsh said to get a picture - regardless or irregardless.""
- "Clitic resumptive pronouns are a major feature in Somali syntax. Object resumptive pronouns corresponding to arguments must always occur (with 3rd pers. pronoun=Ø) irregardless of the presence and position of the full coindexed object NPs [noun phrases]."
- "[T]he crime by definition allowed for the prosecution of both defendants irregardless of which defendant physically pulled the trigger."
- "Irregardless, ex-boyfriends are just off-limits to friends. I mean that's just, like, the rules of feminism."
Etymology
Probably a blend of irrespective + regardless. The word may also be analysed as ir- + regardless, as it is possible that the prefix ir- was added to amplify the negative in regardless just as plain negatives often did at the time the word came into use (and still do in dialects).
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˌɪɹɪˈɡɑɹdlɪs/
- British English: /ˌɪɹɪˈɡɑːdlɪs/