different between despite vs apart

English

Alternative forms

• despight (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French despit, from Latin d?spectum (“looking down on”), from d?spici? (“to look down, despise”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??spa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Preposition

despite

1. In spite of, notwithstanding, regardless of.

Synonyms

• in spite of, maugre; see also Thesaurus:despite

Translations

Noun

despite (countable and uncountable, plural despites)

1. (obsolete) Disdain, contemptuous feelings, hatred.
   • c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:

     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,
     Of fals double tunges in the di?pite.
2. (archaic) Action or behaviour displaying such feelings; an outrage, insult.
3. Evil feeling; malice, spite.
   • 1874, translated by Richard Crawley, Thucydides The Peloponnesian War:

     And for these Corcyraeans—neither receive them into alliance in our despite, nor be their abettors in crime.

Derived terms

• despiteful

Verb

despite (third-person singular simple present despites, present participle despiting, simple past and past participle despited)

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

   • to despite his opposites

References

• despite at OneLook Dictionary Search
• despite in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• seed pit, septide

English

Etymology

From Middle English apart, aparte, a-part, a part, from Anglo-Norman a part, from Latin ad partem (“to the side”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??(?)t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p??t/, enPR: ?-pärt?
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Adverb

apart (comparative more apart, superlative most apart)

1. Placed separately (in regard to space or time).
2. separately, exclusively, not together

3. Aside; away; not included.
4. In or into two or more parts.

Synonyms

• (in a state of separation): independently, separately; see also Thesaurus:individually
• (in or into two or more parts): asunder, in twain; see also Thesaurus:asunder

Antonyms

• together

Derived terms

Translations

Postposition

apart

1. (following its objective complement) Apart from.

Synonyms

• bar, except for; see also Thesaurus:except

Translations

Adjective

apart (not comparable)

1. (Used after a noun or in the predicate) Exceptional, distinct.

2. Having been taken apart; disassembled, in pieces.

Noun

apart

1. Misspelling of a part.

References

apart in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• prata, rap at

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch apart, from Middle French a part.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?part/

Adjective

apart (attributive aparte, comparative aparter, superlative apartste)

1. separate

Derived terms

• apartheid

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French a part.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a??p?rt/
• Hyphenation: apart
• Rhymes: -?rt

Adjective

apart (comparative aparter, superlative apartst)

1. separate

2. unusual

Inflection

Derived terms

• apartheid

Descendants

• Afrikaans: apart

Anagrams

• praat, raapt

German

Etymology

From French à part.

Pronunciation

Adjective

apart (comparative aparter, superlative am apartesten)

1. fancy, distinctive

Declension

Further reading

• “apart” in Duden online

Latvian

Etymology

From ap- +? art (“to plow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [apâ?t]

Verb

apart (tr. or intr., 1st conj., pres. aparu, apar, apar, past aparu)

1. (perfective) to till (land, field) by plowing

2. to overturn (an obstacle) while plowing; to overturn (an obstacle) and plow

3. to cover (e.g., planted potatoes) with earth by plowing around, by deepening the furrows; to furrow

4. (perfective) to plow around (to change direction around something while plowing; to plow the area around something)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (till land): uzart
• (plow around): art
• noart
• uzart