nonetheless

See also: none the less

English

Etymology

From Middle English *non-the-les, variant of no-the-les, noþeles, naþelees, from Old English nān þȳ lǣs, nā þē lǣs, nā þȳ lǣs. By surface analysis, none +‎ the +‎ less.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˌnʌnðəˈlɛs/

Adverb

nonetheless (not comparable)

1. (conjunctive) Nevertheless.
   • 2007 December 3, Christy Lemire, “Review: "Juno" A Small Comic Charmer”, in CBS News‎:

     And "Juno" is the kind of movie all indie comedies wish they could be: light and lovable, perhaps a bit too pleased with the cleverness of its dialogue, but a small charmer nonetheless.

   • 2009 April 29, Marc Ambinder, “Dems and GOPers Treat Their Mods Differently”, in The Atlantic‎, archived from the original on 10 May 2021, retrieved 25 March 2024:

     That's proof to Freire that the party has room for moderate Republicans who are nonetheless loyal Republicans.

   • 2013 May-June, William E. Conner, “An Acoustic Arms Race”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, pages 206–7:

     Nonetheless, some insect prey take advantage of clutter by hiding in it. Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.

Synonyms

• (nevertheless): still, though, yet; see also Thesaurus:nevertheless

Translations

nevertheless — see also nevertheless,‎ either way

Bengali: অথচ (bn) (othoc) Bulgarian: въпреки това (vǎpreki tova) Catalan: nogensmenys (ca), no obstant (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 還是 / 还是 (zh) (háishi), 然而 (zh) (rán'ér), 仍然 (zh) (réngrán) Czech: nicméně (cs) Danish: alligevel (da) Dutch: niettemin (nl) Finnish: silti (fi), kuitenkin (fi) French: néanmoins (fr) German: nichtsdestoweniger (de), nichtsdestotrotz (de) Hungarian: azonban (hu), ugyanakkor (hu), mindazonáltal (hu) Italian: nondimeno (it), malgrado ciò, ciononostante (it) Japanese: にもかかわらず (ja) (nimo kakawarazu) Kazakh: дегенмен (degenmen), әйтсе де (äitse de) Korean: 그럼에도 불구하고 (ko) (geureomedo bulguhago), 그렇지만 (ko) (geureochiman) Latin: tamen (la), nihilōminus Macedonian: сепак (sepak) Norwegian: Bokmål: likevel (no), allikevel (no), like fullt, ikke desto mindre (no) Nynorsk: likevel, like fullt, ikkje dess mindre, kor som er Polish: niemniej jednak (pl), jednakże (pl), jednakowoż (pl) Portuguese: ainda assim (pt) Russian: тем не ме́нее (ru) (tem ne méneje) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: успркос томе Roman: usprkos tome Spanish: no obstante (es), sin embargo (es) Swedish: icke desto mindre (sv), hur som helst (sv) Telugu: అయినా (te) (ayinā) Ukrainian: тим не менш (tym ne menš), все-таки́ (vse-taký), одна́к (odnák), про́те (próte), зате (zaté) Venetan: epura (vec), epur