Ignore

Quick meaning: Ignore is a verb meaning To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.

Meaning

To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.

More Meanings

1. To pretend to not notice someone or something.
2. (obsolete) Fail to notice.
3. (obsolete) Not to know.

Example Sentences

Ignore these four words.

A problem ignored is a problem doubled.

One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.

The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.

Word Forms

• ignores
• ignoring
• ignored
• ignorest
• ignoredst
• ignoreth

Synonyms for ignore

Depending on context, synonyms include brush off, discount, disregard, dissemble, despise, misheed.

Antonyms for ignore

Common opposites include examine, recognize, watch, notice, attend, clock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include disregard, neglect, cold-shoulder, slight, dismiss, brush off.

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