Meaning of nevertheless in English

nevertheless

adverb

/ˌnev.ə.ðəˈles/ us

/ˌnev.ɚ.ðəˈles/

(also nonetheless)

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despite what has just been said or referred to:

I knew a lot about the subject already, but her talk was interesting nevertheless.

Synonyms

however
still 
yet  

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The two rivals were nevertheless united by the freemasonry of the acting profession.
Much-maligned for their derivative style, the band are nevertheless enduringly popular.
Nevertheless, accidents still occur.
"Nevertheless" is commonly used as a conjunctive adverb.
The building is guarded around the clock, but robberies occur nevertheless.

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(Definition of nevertheless from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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nevertheless

adverb [ not gradable ]

/ˌnev·ər·ðəˈles/

(also nonetheless)

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despite what has just been said or referred to:

Their team hadn’t lost a game the entire season. Nevertheless, we beat them by a huge margin last night.

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Examples of nevertheless

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Nevertheless, the lover's lament of separation authentically figures the condition of ordinary existence.

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Nevertheless, the acoustic-phonetic structure of some of the vowels differed across the generations represented by the talkers.

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Nevertheless, teaching team building and communication skills requires an opportunity to practice these skills in vivo in the educational setting.

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Nevertheless, there are good reasons for optimism in writing an overview of research on teaching reading.

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Nevertheless, teaching does occur even in primitive groups.

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Nevertheless, the most illustrative examples of functional adaptation occur in direct relation to changing external conditions, and could also imply structural reconfiguration.

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Nevertheless, this is a very good and accessible introduction which students and those crossing over into performance studies will find extremely useful.

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By installing specific choices, for example lists or trees, different programs are obtained that are, nevertheless, abstractly the same.

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Nevertheless, the results are unlikely to be too far from the truth.

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Nevertheless, it creates the willingness to finance operating costs of projects undertaken.

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Nevertheless, the extent of this princely patriotism varied.

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Nevertheless, there are some basic features or fundamental aspects of this concept that are common to all of its variants.

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Nevertheless, the new planning-control dichotomy he proposes, though a valuable advance, is itself an oversimplification of what must be a multi-channel system.

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As with cognition, this is only one part of the whole picture, but a useful one nevertheless.

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Nevertheless, insufficient support was forthcoming and by the project had stalled.

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in Chinese (Traditional)

不過，仍然, 儘管如此…

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