Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense ignores, present participle ignoring, past tense, past participle ignored
1. verb
If you ignore someone or something, you pay no attention to them.
Why are you ignoring me? [VERB noun]
The government had ignored his views on the subject. [VERB noun]
She ignored legal advice to drop the case. [VERB noun]
For two decades her theatrical talents were ignored by the film industry. [VERB noun]
2. verb
If you say that an argument or theory ignores an important aspect of a situation, you are criticizing it because it fails to consider that aspect or to take it into account.
Such arguments ignore the question of where ultimate responsibility lay. [VERB noun]
More Synonyms of ignore
ignore in British English
(ɪɡˈnɔː)
verb(transitive)
1.
to fail or refuse to notice; disregard
noun
2. Australian informal
disregard
to treat someone with ignore
Derived forms
ignorable (igˈnorable)
adjective
ignorer (igˈnorer)
noun
Word origin
C17: from Latin ignōrāre not to know, from ignārus ignorant of, from i-in-1 + gnārus knowing; related to Latin noscere to know
ignore in American English
(ɪgˈnɔr)
verb transitiveWord forms: igˈnored or igˈnoring
1.
to disregard deliberately; pay no attention to; refuse to consider
2. Law
to reject (a bill of indictment) for lack of evidence
SIMILAR WORDS: neˈglect
Derived forms
ignorer (igˈnorer)
noun
Word origin
Fr ignorer < L ignorare, to have no knowledge of, ignore < in-, not + base of gnarus, knowing < IE base *ĝnā-, *nō-, know
Examples of 'ignore' in a sentence
ignore
The environmental case against it has been largely ignored.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Just nod while ignoring my tan.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It's wrong because it ignores the fact that products are dependent upon each other.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It is a classic example of choosing a correlation that suits your argument and ignoring those that don't.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The government cannot ignore Britain's chronic productivity and housing woes.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She ignores Leavers' advice to breathe fire.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Many people don't know the risks, while others simply ignore them.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
You just have to ignore it and play the game.
The Sun (2014)
Please ignore the advice given to cut back dying tulip stems to a leaf.
The Sun (2015)
Successive governments ignored appeals for recognition until public opinion shamed them into acknowledgement.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He ignored my question and went to sleep.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
These soldiers could not ignore this argument.
Christianity Today (2000)
Various criticisms made over the years are simply ignored.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The other often ignored aspect is their vulnerability.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He said ministers had ignored problems about failed asylum seekers and foreign national prisoners.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Those who write off the oil and gas industry ignore all this at their peril.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
You cannot ignore the fact that a coin was thrown at a group of players.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We were shouted at or just ignored.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
My advice is to ignore the moss and certainly not to use chemicals on it.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Rather he rejected it as a viable form of government and ignored it from there on.
Roper, Jon Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century (1989)
Such an argument ignores the fact that all cultures throw up bad things as well as good.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Simply ignore the option list and save your money.
The Sun (2014)
If he continues to ignore this aspect of his game he will have a problem.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
So qualifications that are in demand from industry are principally ignored by government funding streams.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This is to ignore the fact that it tends to be much more demanding and much bleaker.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
They sometimes just ignore the whole thing and hope for the best.
Bethune, Helen Positive Parent Power (1991)
Drivers were urged yesterday to ignore the advice.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
These warning signs were largely ignored.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
When most of us relied on annuities, life expectancy was something we could largely ignore.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Thereafter, those investors were largely ignored.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Older people say they are routinely ignored and failed by councils - and now they are speaking up.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
In other languages
ignore
British English: ignore /ɪɡˈnɔː/ VERB
If you ignore someone or something, you deliberately take no notice of them.
Her husband ignored her.
American English: ignore
Arabic: يَتَجَاهَلُ
Brazilian Portuguese: ignorar
Chinese: 不理睬
Croatian: ignorirati
Czech: ignorovat
Danish: ignorere
Dutch: negeren
European Spanish: hacer caso omiso
Finnish: olla välittämättä
French: ignorer
German: ignorieren
Greek: αγνοώ
Italian: ignorare
Japanese: 無視する
Korean: 무시하다
Norwegian: ignorere
Polish: zignorować
European Portuguese: ignorar
Romanian: a ignora
Russian: игнорировать
Latin American Spanish: ignorar
Swedish: ignorera
Thai: ไม่สนใจ
Turkish: görmezden gelmek
Ukrainian: ігнорувати
Vietnamese: lờ đi
Chinese translation of 'ignore'
ignore
(ɪɡˈnɔːʳ)
vt
(= pay no attention to)
[person]不理 (bù lǐ)
[advice, event]不顾(顧) (bù gù)
(= overlook)[fact]忽视(視) (hūshì)
1 (verb)
Definition
to refuse to notice
She was ignoring me.
Synonyms
pay no attention to
neglect
disregard
slight
overlook
scorn
people who scorned traditional methods
People scorn me as a single parent.
spurn
a spurned lover
rebuff
take no notice of
be oblivious to
dinghy (British, slang)
Opposites
note
,
regard
,
acknowledge
,
recognize
,
heed
,
pay attention to
2 (verb)
Definition
to refuse to notice
Such arguments ignore the important issues.
Synonyms
overlook
He never overlooked his employees' faults.
discount
His theory was discounted immediately.
disregard
He disregarded the advice of his executives.
reject
neglect
If you don't keep an eye on them, children tend to neglect their homework.
shrug off
He shrugged off the criticism.
pass over
brush aside
turn a blind eye to
turn a deaf ear to
shut your eyes to
3 (verb)
I kept sending letters and cards but he just ignored me.
Synonyms
snub
He snubbed her in public and made her feel an idiot.
cut (informal)
She just cut me in the street.
slight
They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted.
blank (slang)
rebuff
After the argument he rebuffed all their invitations.
cold-shoulder
turn your back on
give (someone) the cold shoulder
send (someone) to Coventry
give (someone) the brush-off
dinghy (British, slang)
Additional synonyms
in the sense of cut
Definition
to pretend not to recognize
She just cut me in the street.
Synonyms
ignore,
avoid,
slight,
blank (slang),
snub,
spurn,
freeze (someone) out (informal),
cold-shoulder,
turn your back on,
send to Coventry,
look straight through (someone)
in the sense of discount
Definition
to leave (something) out of account as being unreliable, prejudiced, or irrelevant