Definition of Irrespective

1. Adverb. In spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks. "He carried on regardless of the difficulties"


Definition of Irrespective

1. a. Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial; as, an irrespective judgment.

Definition of Irrespective

1. Adjective. heedless, regardless ¹

2. Adjective. (obsolete) disrespectful ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Irrespective

irresistibly
irresistless
irresoluble
irresolubleness
irresolubly
irresolute
irresolutely
irresoluteness
irresolution
irresolutions
irresolvability
irresolvable
irresolvableness
irresolvably
irresolvedly
irrespective (current term)
irrespective of
irrespectively
irrespirable
irresponsibility
irresponsible
irresponsibleness
irresponsibles
irresponsibly
irresponsive
irrestrainable
irresultative
irresuscitable
irresuscitably
irretention

Literary usage of Irrespective

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"Reception at My Home in Mansfield — Given by Friends irrespective of Party — Introduced by My Old Friend and Partner Henry C. Hedges— I Reply by Giving ..."

2. Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management by Dionysius Lardner (1850)
"The former is in the ratio of the number of passengers booked, irrespective of the distances they are carried; the latter, on the contrary, is in the direct ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... Morgan, TH, et al., 'The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity' ; Weismann, A., 'The Evolution Theory' (Eng. trans, by Thomson). ing or irrespective of it, ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"... right to recover would have been the same, irrespective of what might have been the truth as to the particular matter to which these writings related. ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... Test Act (1871) throwing open the universities to all irrespective of creed. Ш. Theology, Liturgy, Clergy, Government: The doctrinal standards of the ..."

6. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"Reception at My Home in Mansfield — Given by Friends irrespective of Party — Introduced by My Old Friend and Partner Henry C. Hedges— I Reply by Giving ..."

7. Railway Economy: A Treatise on the New Art of Transport, Its Management by Dionysius Lardner (1850)
"The former is in the ratio of the number of passengers booked, irrespective of the distances they are carried; the latter, on the contrary, is in the direct ..."

8. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... Morgan, TH, et al., 'The Mechanism of Mendelian Heredity' ; Weismann, A., 'The Evolution Theory' (Eng. trans, by Thomson). ing or irrespective of it, ..."

9. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1911)
"... right to recover would have been the same, irrespective of what might have been the truth as to the particular matter to which these writings related. ..."

10. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... Test Act (1871) throwing open the universities to all irrespective of creed. Ш. Theology, Liturgy, Clergy, Government: The doctrinal standards of the ..."

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