Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Regardless.
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- adjective proscribed, nonstandard
Regardless .
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- adverb regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes used humorously
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"It's right up there with people who use the term 'irregardless.'"
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Since you are so quick to pick out someone elses failings, try looking in the mirror ... "irregardless" is not an acceptable word to use in the context you applied it ...
GOP senator to Sotomayor: your speeches 'bug the hell out of me' 2009
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But asking if it’s a word isn’t the question anyone’s interested in; when people ask if irregardless is a word, they really mean to ask if irregardless is a valid and well-accepted component of Standard English.
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The question isn’t whether or not irregardless is a word, because that’s such an ill-defined question.
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But asking if it’s a word isn’t the question anyone’s interested in; when people ask if irregardless is a word, they really mean to ask if irregardless is a valid and well-accepted component of Standard English.
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The question isn’t whether or not irregardless is a word, because that’s such an ill-defined question.
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It may surprise you that they have been for a very long time regardless (because irregardless is not a word) of who is in the oval office.
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It may surprise you that they have been for a very long time regardless (because irregardless is not a word) of who is in the oval office.
House Democrats want to use bailout money to pay for jobs 2009
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ENGLISH SOB: irregardless is a wrong word because, regard is the root, meaning, here, to look at or consider. regardless, means, essentially “without looking at” ir, as you correctly note, is a negation.
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Nine out of ten in the street would think him a muslim or at least to have come from a muslim background upon hearing his name irregardless of their own prejudices, biases, or upbringings.
tomsteele commented on the word irregardless
Regardless is sufficient.
December 24, 2006
toner commented on the word irregardless
Irregardless is so fantastically pleonastic!
January 16, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word irregardless
THIS WORD SUCKS! IT IS WRONG AND BAD!!!
January 31, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word irregardless
A friend on Flickr heard this monstrosity in a meeting. Interestingly, another Flickr friend heard it used during a conference call the same week. Worrying isn't it?
April 15, 2007
arby commented on the word irregardless
I hate this fake-ass, non-word so much!! My boss used this while we were on a conference call, so I couldn't even subtly correct her!
PS I'm only "listing" it as my least favorite "word" ever!!
April 18, 2007
oroboros commented on the word irregardless
See: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/irregardless
August 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word irregardless
Doesn't that just kill you, arby? You dislike a word so much that you have to put it on your "I Hate These Words" list, but you dislike it too much to have it show up as one of "your" words.
A Wordie conundrum.
August 28, 2007
repsac3 commented on the word irregardless
It could be worse... My father claims to've had a drill sergeant in the army who used "disirregardless" with some frequency. (I'm not even listin' it... 8>)
August 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word irregardless
Wow. Amazing. That one just makes your brain hurt.
August 28, 2007
uselessness commented on the word irregardless
That's it, I'm officially an anti-disirregardlessist.
August 28, 2007
jaymediane commented on the word irregardless
Regardless of what you have heard, “irregardless�? is a redundancy. The suffix “-less�? on the end of the word already makes the word negative. It doesn’t need the negative prefix “ir-�? to make it even more negative.
October 22, 2007
seanahan commented on the word irregardless
Actually, in many languages, double negatives don't resolve to positive. This was true of English for a long time, although not really in modernity. In Spanish, double negatives are used frequently.
October 22, 2007
palooka commented on the word irregardless
Irregardless is a pretty word regardless of it's total lack of regard for formal usage.
October 22, 2007
sionnach commented on the word irregardless
I would like to register my strong, but polite, disagreement with palooka. irregardless is an abomination.
October 22, 2007
reesetee commented on the word irregardless
Ditto that, sionnach. Sorry, palooka.
October 22, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word irregardless
Are there other words with the same "mouthfeel" that are as pretty to your ears, palooka?
October 22, 2007
reesetee commented on the word irregardless
A "mouthfeel" list--that's a good idea!
October 22, 2007
palooka commented on the word irregardless
Irregardless is my kind of word; it beautifully uncoils then strikes you with its impact, its payload of meaning. Regardless is just a word you happen to stumble over on the way to the rest of the sentence, though it's a perfectly good, functional word.
Irregardless of that, I respect your opinions.
Most of my lists are populated with mouthfeel words and/or words with poetic impact I think.
October 22, 2007
yarb commented on the word irregardless
I hate this word! I see it all the time and it makes my piss boil!
October 22, 2007
reesetee commented on the word irregardless
That's gotta hurt.
October 22, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word irregardless
That's a beautiful phrasing for feeling stabby, yarb.
It kind of makes my piss boil too. :)
P.S. why piss and not blood? Or hell--bile! "It makes my bile boil"? Come on, it's fun.
October 23, 2007
palooka commented on the word irregardless
Man, this is an endangered, beat down word! I'm starting the "Irregardless Preservation Society" to promote the acceptance & use of irregardless in our society. We will insist that no sentence containing the word irregardless will under any circumstances be erased, defaced or recycled until the population of irregardless words in the wild is stabilized & naturally begins to grow.
I urge all of you caring wordies to do your part to save irregardless!
October 23, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word irregardless
*barfs*
October 23, 2007
yarb commented on the word irregardless
I think one's piss is the coolest bodily fluid to boil in anger. Blood was the original, but "it makes my blood boil" became uncool - associated with old-fashioned moral rectitude. "Piss" is the modern, demotic version, for people who can't say anything without tacit self-deprecation. When you say something makes your piss boil, you're acknowledging the huffiness inherent in the precursor phrase. "Bile" has the virtue of variety but unfortunately quite a few people don't know what it is.
Anyhow, good luck with your campaign, palooka! You may be alone, but I admire your passion, irregardless.
October 23, 2007
reesetee commented on the word irregardless
Aw, man. Palooka, you're serious? *red pen in twitching hand*
Well, I guess yarb has a point. I admire your passion, if not the actual word, which feels like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
October 23, 2007
pomegranate commented on the word irregardless
The word that is not a word.
December 4, 2007
hollyhill commented on the word irregardless
Everything I've ever known tells me this is a non-word, but if it's spoken, it becomes a word, doesn't it? I have a dear friend who says it often, I thought she'd made it up, so here I've been better informed.
December 4, 2007
bilby commented on the word irregardless
Sounds like a Bushism although the etymology goes back a bit further. I don't mind this one actually. I don't have any trouble mentally editing it back to regardless.
December 4, 2007
rastrau commented on the word irregardless
Irregardless is not a word. End of story.
March 11, 2009
myth commented on the word irregardless
30 helens agree: Irregardless is not a word.
March 11, 2009
reesetee commented on the word irregardless
Let's just call it madeupical, then.
March 11, 2009
bilby commented on the word irregardless
'Blurp,' said the Snarken, biggardly. Next you'll be saying vitamin D is not a real vitamin.
March 12, 2009
reesetee commented on the word irregardless
What's a vitamin? You made that up.
March 12, 2009
Telofy commented on the word irregardless
Soon this word will just unvanish away.
See also: irrigate
November 3, 2009
jwjarvis commented on the word irregardless
tihs wrod cakrcs me up. adoybny hvae a fritoave lsit of cmonmloy mlsepisled and msueisd wrods?
November 10, 2010
jwjarvis commented on the word irregardless
regardlesser, unheedless, uncareless...
November 10, 2010
alexz commented on the word irregardless
Irregardless has been around since 1735
http://goo.gl/ZzzTf edit, ok, actually, that book was initially written in 1735, but it has crap added to it over the years.
Next book in chronological order is 1863 The Knickerbocker http://goo.gl/DNuIz
Irregardless of that, the word irregardless is not going away anytime soon.
February 10, 2013
pterodactyl commented on the word irregardless
Seanahan made a very good point, earlier in this thread. (Uh, six years earlier, actually. I'm kind of late to this discussion.) In some languages, double negatives are interpreted as negatives. In fact, some dialects of English do the same thing. You could say, for example, "That ain't no moon!" and it would mean the same thing as "That's no moon!"
There's a larger question, which is whether it's better for a language to interpret double negatives as positives or as negatives. The former is more logical; the latter is more natural. I wish we could come up with a rule that's both logical AND natural, but I don't know what that would be.
February 10, 2013
bilby commented on the word irregardless
I aint never making no more comments on this word.
February 10, 2013
alexz commented on the word irregardless
Triple negative phrase score - 201 points.
February 11, 2013
fbharjo commented on the word irregardless
ig-norirregardless
regardsome
Look-at-all!
Seenone
beforward
February 11, 2013