Disregard

Quick meaning: Disregard is a noun meaning The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something.

Meaning

The act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To ignore; to pay no attention to.

Example Sentences

The government's blithe disregard for the needs of disabled people is outrageous.

The Trump administration’s disregard for due process has been a pattern in the legal disputes over his immigration policies.

If you break the law, they will send you a letter. You disregard that they will send someone with a suit to your house. If you disregard Suit-Boy, you will be sent a subpoena. You disregard that they will send men with guns and dogs to your house.

Half of the mock jurors that were told he had insurance were told to disregard that information. Mock jurors who were instructed to disregard the information awarded the defendant more money than participants who did not know the defendant had insurance, or knew that he had insurance but were not told to disregard this information.

Word Forms

• disregards
• disregarding
• disregarded

Synonyms for disregard

Depending on context, synonyms include misregard, unheed, unmind, disesteem, neglect, dismiss.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ignore, neglect, pretermission, cold-shoulder, slight, dismiss.

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