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Definition of "regardless of" []

  • In spite of: We will persevere regardless of past failures. (preposition)
  • With no heed to: freedom for all, regardless of race or creed. (preposition)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "regardless of" in a sentence
  • "It's going to get a whole lot tougher for people on Medicaid to find a doctor, says Kunda, who doesn't accept any new patients regardless of type of insurance."
  • "Anthony's attorney, Cheney Mason, blasted the media after the verdict for its coverage of the case, suggesting that such images were an attempt to define his client in the court of public opinion regardless of the evidence in the case."
  • "The reign of Louis XIV marked the apogee of the French Protectorate in the East, for not only the Latin missionaries of all nationalities, but also the heads of all Catholic communities, regardless of rite or nationality, appealed to the Grand Roi, and, at the recommendation of his ambassadors and consuls to the Porte and the pashas, obtained justice and protection from their enemies."
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