Did you perchance mean regardless?
Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Nonstandard Regardless.
Wiktionary
- adj. proscribed, nonstandard Regardless.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes used humorously
Etymologies
- Probably a blend of irrespective and regardless; surface analysis is ir- + regardless. (Wiktionary)
- Probably blend of irrespective and regardless. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It's right up there with people who use the term 'irregardless.”
“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'
“The question isn’t whether or not irregardless is a word, because that’s such an ill-defined question.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“irregardless" is not an acceptable word to use in the context you applied it … it's not a word at all! the spelling and grammar (not grammer) of some posters sure shows their level of education! matt”
GOP senator to Sotomayor: your speeches 'bug the hell out of me'
“Indeed, those dictionaries that include "irregardless" - which is most of them, now-call it”
“I’m with goofy, et al. The in - in irregardless is the intensive in -, not the negating one.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘irregardless’.
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EN - redundancies, tautologies and pl...
weep tears of joy, a cappella withou..., RAM memory, ABS system, absolutely essential, absolutely necessary, AC current, ACT test, advance forward, advance scouting, advance warning, affirmative yes and 309 more...
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-more or -less
Words ending with *more or *less, more or less. Many of theses terms also appear on the list The -less Said, which see.
schemaless, jobless, endless, useless, unless, guileless, wireless, regardless, homeless, nevertheless, countless, doubtless and 434 more...
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Dumbisms
Words and phrases I don't like. They are dumb.
re-look, good to go, reinvent the wheel, do what, ducks in a row, re-up, twofer, irregardless, repurpose, ballyhoo, bells and whistles, webinar and 55 more...
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Words to torment grammar nazis with
irregardless, alot, grammar nazi, Internet, hopefully, alright, Promptorium Parvu..., Begging the question, begs the question, living language, would of, should of and 7 more...
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[Open] Words that MUST BE DESTROYED
This isn’t a list for words which are merely proscribed or with whom you have a personal vendetta. If you list a word here, you should be able to explain why it is an enemy of the English language....
semordnilaps, irregardless, agendae, appendice, sustainity, bilby
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Rubbies
Words and things that rub me wrong
eclectic, canon, flesh, irregardless, conversate, can't, mandatory, war on christmas, male bonding, pissa, parochial, infallible and 98 more...
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words that aren't
Words are wonderful. These aren't ... words I mean.
Neologisms are wonderful. These aren't. -
It's NOT the real thing, baby!
"Words" people use that aren't really words at all (and therefore, drive us crazy!)
flustrated, irregardless, incidences, nucular, wuz, google, pronounciation, supposably, fustrated
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The Hated
These are words that I hate, actually cringe to hear, because they are so often used incorrectly or mispronounced.
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DEF's list
Obscure Words
obfuscate, harbinger, morose, meniscus, conspicuous, grandiose, cogitated, matron, erudite, oness, apothegms, assuage and 475 more...
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working list
overkill, premonition, discombobulation, golliwogs, guerilla, paraphernalia, banter, gambit, atonement, leeway, ingenuity, haberdashery and 164 more...
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lindaness's list
Ausgezeignet
precision, quite, irregardless, drownded, diaspora, compersion, de rigueur, bodhisattva, dénouement
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words that will make me hit you if us...
utilize, entitle, which, that, ejected, ironic, literally, nauseous, amidst, anticipate, blonde, busses and 7 more...
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Words That Don't/Shouldn't Exist
No matter what my coworkers think.
irregardless, supposably, heighth, acrosst, expresso, ironical, orientate, literally, exetera, functionality, networking
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scandalous-neon's Words
magnanimous, irregardless, vortex, spindrift, mermaid, guillotine, smithereen, hyacinth, tempest, labyrinth, leviathan, flutter and 17 more...
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linguinteresting
linguisticly interesting
lexeme, periphrastic, snowclone, cornroll, irregardless, wholescale, slanguage, infixation, expletive, nonce, prosodic, reduplication and 26 more...
Tweets
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Feb 10, 2013
alexz Triple negative phrase score - 201 points. Feb 10, 2013
bilby I aint never making no more comments on this word. Feb 10, 2013
pterodactyl 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. Feb 10, 2013
alexz 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.
Feb 10, 2013
jwjarvis regardlesser, unheedless, uncareless... Nov 10, 2010
jwjarvis tihs wrod cakrcs me up. adoybny hvae a fritoave lsit of cmonmloy mlsepisled and msueisd wrods? Nov 10, 2010
Telofy Soon this word will just unvanish away.
See also: irrigate Nov 3, 2009
reesetee What's a vitamin? You made that up. Mar 12, 2009
bilby 'Blurp,' said the Snarken, biggardly. Next you'll be saying vitamin D is not a real vitamin. Mar 12, 2009
reesetee Let's just call it madeupical, then. Mar 11, 2009
myth 30 helens agree: Irregardless is not a word. Mar 11, 2009
rastrau Irregardless is not a word. End of story. Mar 10, 2009
bilby 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. Dec 4, 2007
hollyhill 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. Dec 4, 2007
pomegranate The word that is not a word. Dec 4, 2007
reesetee 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. Oct 23, 2007
yarb 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. Oct 23, 2007
chained_bear *barfs* Oct 23, 2007
palooka 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! Oct 23, 2007
chained_bear 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. Oct 22, 2007
reesetee That's gotta hurt. Oct 22, 2007
yarb I hate this word! I see it all the time and it makes my piss boil! Oct 22, 2007
palooka 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. Oct 22, 2007
reesetee A "mouthfeel" list--that's a good idea! Oct 22, 2007
chained_bear Are there other words with the same "mouthfeel" that are as pretty to your ears, palooka? Oct 22, 2007
reesetee Ditto that, sionnach. Sorry, palooka. Oct 22, 2007
sionnach I would like to register my strong, but polite, disagreement with palooka. irregardless is an abomination. Oct 22, 2007
palooka Irregardless is a pretty word regardless of it's total lack of regard for formal usage. Oct 22, 2007
seanahan 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. Oct 22, 2007
jaymediane 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. Oct 22, 2007
uselessness That's it, I'm officially an anti-disirregardlessist. Aug 28, 2007
reesetee Wow. Amazing. That one just makes your brain hurt. Aug 28, 2007
repsac3 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>) Aug 28, 2007
reesetee 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. Aug 27, 2007
oroboros See: http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/irregardless Aug 27, 2007
arby 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!! Apr 18, 2007
sonofgroucho 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? Apr 15, 2007
chained_bear THIS WORD SUCKS! IT IS WRONG AND BAD!!! Jan 31, 2007
toner Irregardless is so fantastically pleonastic! Jan 16, 2007
tomsteele Regardless is sufficient. Dec 24, 2006