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no matter

no matter interjection: it doesn't matter, it's unimportant, it doesn't make any difference.

Interjection

  1. (US, dated) It doesn't matter, it's unimportant, it doesn't make any difference.
    • It seems that Doug's coat has gone missing. Oh, well, no matter: we can always buy a new one, now can't we?
    • "Did you fail your exam?" "Yes, but no matter. I'll just study harder next time."

Preposition

no matter

  1. Irrespective of, regardless of, in spite of.
    • As an experienced geologist, he can identify any rock no matter where he finds it.
    • No matter what the excuse, you must not be late.

no matter meaning in Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Vietnamese

no matter in Hindi

regardless of
चाहे cāhe

no matter in Telugu

regardless of
పరవాలేదు paravālēdu

no matter in Malayalam

it's not important, it doesn't matter, it makes no difference
സാരമില്ലാത്ത, ഗൗരവമുള്ളതല്ലാത്ത, സാരമായ വ്യത്യാസമുണ്ടാക്കാത്ത, അതോർത്തു വിഷമിക്കേണ്ട, സാരമില്ല, പോട്ടെ

no matter in Vietnamese

regardless of
dù gì đi nữa

Examples of no matter in a sentence

  • We can fix your plumbing no matter the problem.
  • I'll pick you up at the airport on Friday no matter when your flight arrives.
  • My Aunt Rachel brought Jane's dresses for me to wear/Perfectly Good Clothes/And I should've been glad to get them/Perfectly Good Clothes/No matter they didn't fit quite right1988, Kate Rushin, “The Black Back-Ups”, in Barbara Smith, editor, Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology:
  • But, no matter, because the event was awash with a “tsunami of love”.2025 June 21, Jo Ellison, “The Bezos merger we all want a piece of”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd....
  • Nevertheless, we continue to experience the problems of this level of reading, no matter how capable we may be as readers.1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 17:

Origin of no matter

Shortened from earlier it makes no matter, it is no matter.

Questions about no matter

What does no matter mean?
No matter means it doesn't matter, it's unimportant, it doesn't make any difference.
What is no matter in Hindi?
No matter in Hindi is चाहे (cāhe). See No matter meaning in Hindi.
How do you use no matter in a sentence?
We can fix your plumbing no matter the problem.
What part of speech is no matter?
No matter can be an interjection or a preposition.

Words near no matter in the dictionary

  1. no man's land
  2. no man's lands
  3. no mark
  4. no marks
  5. no mas
  6. no matter
  7. no matter how much milk you put in coffee, it's still coffee
  8. no matter how much milk you put in tea, it's still tea
  9. no matter how one slices it
  10. no matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney
  11. no matter how thin you slice it, it's still boloney

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: no matter (page history and authors); no matter (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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