disregardless

disregardless

English

Etymology

Blend of disregarding +‎ regardless

Adverb

disregardless (not comparable)

1. (nonstandard) Regardless.
   • 1870, William Kyle, An exposition of the symbolic terms of the second part of ..., page 17:

     Whatever a man really is, he is so esteemed and named by Goethe in Faust, quite disregardless of any conventional titles or obloquys he bears.

   • 1996, KU Schulz, Combining Unification and Disunification Algorithms: Tractable and Intractable Instances:

     Typically, this reduction is based on a polynomial number of non-deterministic steps. Hence the combination algorithm introduces its own NP-complexity, disregardless of the complexity of the algorithms that are available for the components.

   • 1998 March 17, <[e-mail]>, “Takes a thief”, in alt.native, Usenet‎, message-ID <1>:

     I wouldn't call the term "wasichu" racist at all, for example. It doesn't refer to race, but to a behaviour that could be observed disregardless of race.

See also

• irregardless

References

• disregardless at WordNet 3.0