Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To refuse to pay attention to; disregard.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not to know; be ignorant of.
- To pass over or by without notice; treat as if not known; shut the eyes to; leave out of account; disregard: as, to ignore facts.
- In law, to throw out as being unsupported by evidence. See ignoramus, 1.
Wiktionary
- v. To deliberately pay no attention to.
- v. obsolete Fail to notice.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Archaic To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.
- v. (Law) To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for lack of evidence. See Ignoramus.
- v. Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly
WordNet 3.0
- v. fail to notice
- v. bar from attention or consideration
- v. refuse to acknowledge
- v. give little or no attention to
- v. be ignorant of or in the dark about
Etymologies
- From French ignorer, from Latin ignorare ("to have no knowledge of, mistake, take no notice of, ignore"), from ignarus ("not knowing"), from in + gnarus ("knowing"), from *gnoscere, noscere; see know. (Wiktionary)
- French ignorer, from Old French, from Latin ignōrāre; see gnō- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“How can a conference of this title ignore the effect on Israel of being kept at war by its enemies for over 60 years if its organisers are not themselves biased.”
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“The point, which dipshits like you continually ignore is that Mrs. Tebow was GIVEN THE CHOICE.”
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“The facts that Republicans like to ignore is that climate change does weird things to weather.”
“What you ignore is the fact that most ID supporters don't believe in a purely naturalistic evolutionary process.”
“What most media reports ignore is that the epidemic has been years in the making.”
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“The key quote you ignore is “None of the attorneys under investigation were identified in the Post report.””
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“What many doves forget/ignore is that the Cold War is over.”
“But I think one thing you ignore is that ‘appearing to fight’ might actually strengthen your hand.”
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“The problem, that economists force themselves to ignore, is that the immediate benefits of governnment growth depend upon the marginal benefit/cost ratio at various income levels.”
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“What they choose to ignore is that she is a strong advocate for the health care of children, for prenatal care for women and for preventive medicine.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ignore’.
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
Words with that horrible 'gn' sound
pregnant, interregnum, impregnable, signal, signature, prognosis, ignorant, ignominious, magnum, diagnosis, designation, incognito and 37 more...
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no little thing
it bothers me when i hear someone who have experienced something life changing use the phrase: now i appreciate the little things. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY LITTLE THINGS. everything is EXTRAOR...
letters, living, understand, narrow, behavior, personal, need, meant, untamed, world, soldier, 'cause and 241 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Words I like
This is a list of my favourite words (phrases) in english, as a second language. I love them mostly because of how they sound and their meaning.
ninja, cookie, skill, zip, plentiful, digg, debris, pancake, cucumber, fetch, pot, backpack and 461 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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TBH
Life is timshel negentropy.
collective noun, terms of venery, tramp stamp, snot, polish, snotty, smartass, remark, shitload, pun, champion, trigger and 75 more...
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Tunie: When You Dream
by Barenaked Ladies.
With life just begun, my sleeping new son
Has eyes that roll back in his head
They flutter and dart, he slows down his heart
And pictures a world...beyond, wise, cognizant, experience, waves, transistor radio, runaway, perceived, loud, noises, boisterous, silent and 39 more...
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TBH good words
words used in my list of TBH bon mots
thermodynamics, entropy, negentropy, timshel, life, negative, ignore, extreme, sarcasm, terminate, prejudice
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Unite1
get on like a hou..., squabble, resent, the patience of a..., neglect, nagging, stick up for, elipsis, substitution, muck in, devote, wishful thinking and 23 more...
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doghouse
sequester, quarantine, isolate, exile, shun, expel, banish, exclude, outlaw, outcast, ignore, cast out and 29 more...
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