preposition
1 used to show that sth happened or is true in spite of sth:
Her voice was shaking despite all her efforts to control it. * Despite applying for hundreds of jobs, he is still out of work. * She was good at physics despite the fact that she found it boring.
2 (despite yourself) used to show that sb did not intend to do the thing mentioned:
He had to laugh despite himself.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for despite is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does despite appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — despite appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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