mindegy

Hungarian

Etymology

mind +‎ egy

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmindɛɟː]

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• Hyphenation: min‧degy
• Rhymes: -ɛɟ

Adjective

mindegy (not comparable)

1. (as a predicative adjective) irrelevant, unimportant, all the same (to someone: -nak/-nek)
2. (predicatively, followed by an embedded question) I don't care, I don't mind…, no matter (… whether / who / where / how etc.)

   Synonyms: akár-, bár-

Interjection

mindegy

1. (on its own) whatever, anyway, never mind, forget it, it doesn't matter

Descendants

• → Pannonian Rusyn: (obsolete) миндеть (mindetʹ)

Further reading

• mindegy in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.