Despite

Noun

 * 1)  Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
 * 2)  Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
 * 3) * 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book II:
 * I am right wroth with Balen, I wold he were quyte of the despyte that he hath done to me and to my Courte.
 * 1) Evil feeling; malice, spite.

Preposition

 * 1) in spite of
 * 2) * 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet III:
 * So thou through windows of thine age shall see
 * Despite of wrinkles this thy golden time.
 * 1) * 1592–1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet XIX:
 * Yet, do thy worst, old Time: despite thy wrong,
 * My love shall in my verse ever live young.

Derived terms

 * despiteful

Thesaurus
Schadenfreude, abhorrence, abomination, affront, airs, arrogance, aspersion, at all costs, at any cost, atrocity, audacity, aversion, bold front, boldness, brash bearing, brashness, brassiness, bravado, brazenness, brickbat, bumptiousness, cattiness, cheekiness, clannishness, cliquishness, cockiness, cold shoulder, contempt, contemptuousness, contumacy, contumely, cut, daring, daringness, defial, defiance, defying, derision, despisal, detestation, discourtesy, disdain, disdainfulness, disfavor, disgust, dislike, disparagement, disregard, distaste, dump, enormity, even with, flouting, gibe, gloating pleasure, grudge, harm, hate, hatred, hauteur, humiliation, hurt, ignoring, ill will, impertinence, impudence, in defiance of, in despite of, in spite of, incivility, indignity, injury, insolence, insult, irregardless, irrespective of, jeer, jeering, loathing, malevolence, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, mock, mockery, notwithstanding, offense, outrage, pertness, put-down, rebuff, recalcitrance, regardless, regardless of, regardless of cost, rejection, repudiation, ridicule, sauciness, scoff, scorn, scornfulness, scurrility, slap, slight, sniffiness, snobbishness, snootiness, snottiness, snub, sovereign contempt, spite, spite of, spitefulness, spleen, spurning, stubbornness, superciliousness, taunt, toploftiness, uncomplimentary remark, unholy joy, with

Etymology
From despit:, from  despectum:, from despicere:.

Translations

 * Arabic: رغم
 * Bulgarian: въпреки
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 儘管, 尽管, ,  ,  ,  ,  ,
 * Czech:, ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, ,
 * German:
 * Greek: παρά
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: にもかかわらず (〜にも関わらず)
 * Norwegian: til tross for
 * Polish:, pomimo,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: упркос
 * Roman: uprkos
 * Spanish:, pese a,
 * Swedish: (att)

Anagrams

 * seed pit