regardless of

English

Preposition

regardless of

without attention to
He smoked cigars regardless of the consequences.

Usage notes

regardless, without of, is sometimes used as a preposition.
This term can also be analyzed as an adjective "regardless" that takes a prepositional phrase headed by "of" as its complement.

Synonyms

irrespective of

Translations

without attention to

Arabic: بِغَضّ اَلنَّظَر عَن‎ (bi-ḡaḍḍ an-naẓar ʿan), دُونَ اَلاِهْتِمَام بِـ‎ (dūna l-ihtimām bi-)
Egyptian Arabic: بصرف النظر عن‎ (beṣarff en-naẓar ʿann)
Bashkir: ҡарамаҫтан (qaramaθtan)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不管 (zh)

Czech: bez ohledu na
Finnish: välittämättä
French: nonobstant (fr), peu importe (fr)
Italian: a prescindere da
Norwegian:
Bokmål: uansett (no), uten hensyn til
Swedish: oavsett (sv), bortsett från (sv)

See also

despite

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