NEVERTHELESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nevertheless mean? 

• NEVERTHELESS (adverb)
  The adverb NEVERTHELESS has 1 sense:

1. despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)

  Familiarity information: NEVERTHELESS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEVERTHELESS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession)

Synonyms:

all the same; at the same time; even so; however; nevertheless; nonetheless; notwithstanding; still; withal; yet

Context example:

granted that it is dangerous, all the same I still want to go

 Context examples 

White Fang, seeming to sum up strength in all his qualities, nevertheless suffered from one besetting weakness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Nevertheless, she promised not to go away, but to continue keeping house for the shepherd.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Nevertheless, it was looked for again, and still not found.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Nevertheless we have helped to create that demand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nevertheless, you are in a period where money was hard to earn.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Nevertheless, the patients could feel other forms of touch.

(“Sixth sense” may be more than just a feeling, NIH)

Ay, stare if you please; but it is nevertheless true.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You will think me superstitious,—some superstition I have in my blood, and always had: nevertheless, this is true—true at least it is that I heard what I now relate.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I dare say you don't, Mrs. Grundy, but it's true nevertheless.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The baronet, nevertheless, is not unlikely to marry again; he is quite fool enough.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)