Definition of "despite" in English

preposition

1. In spite of, notwithstanding.

   • Despite being a near-mirror image my of right, my left hand is terrible at these stuff.

noun

1. (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.

   • A fals double tunge is more fiers and fell Then Cerberus the cur couching in the kenel of hel; Wherof hereafter, I thinke for to write,

2. (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.

3. Evil feeling; malice, spite, annoyance.

verb

1. (obsolete) To vex; to annoy; to offend contemptuously.