ignore
to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
Law. (of a grand jury) to reject (a bill of indictment), as on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
Origin of ignore
1Other words for ignore
Opposites for ignore
Other words from ignore
- ig·nor·a·ble, adjective
- ig·nor·er, noun
- un·ig·nor·a·ble, adjective
- un·ig·nor·a·bly, adverb
- un·ig·nored, adjective
- un·ig·nor·ing, adjective
- well-ig·nored, adjective
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How to use ignore in a sentence
High-quality emails get read and are hardly ignored even if they are cold emails.
Email marketing in 2020: Four key things that made the difference | Toby Nwazor | November 19, 2020 | Search Engine WatchIf you are concerned that you have bad links pointing to your site that may end up hurting your site’s performance in Google Search, you can give Google a list of URLs or domains you would like Google to ignore.
Google migrates the disavow link tool to new Search Console | Barry Schwartz | November 17, 2020 | Search Engine LandAs Person 3 just seems to be along for the ride, Miss Manners gives permission to ignore him.
Miss Manners: Decoding a job application response | Judith Martin, Nicholas Martin, Jacobina Martin | November 12, 2020 | Washington PostIf you ignore this step, you can run into issues with the performance of your site.
How visual content can give a boost to your SEO and how to take advantage | Anthony Gaenzle | November 10, 2020 | Search Engine WatchIn 1984, staff writer Carol Sugarman noted that “a meatless Thanksgiving needn’t ignore traditional holiday flavors or colors, and can certainly be as festive a menu as one with a main course of poultry.”
Things-plus-me is the only knowable, and consequently the only 'ignorable.'
James Frederick Ferrier | Elizabeth Sanderson HaldaneThe law of ignorance hence is that 'we can be ignorant only of what can be known,' or 'the knowable is alone the ignorable.'
James Frederick Ferrier | Elizabeth Sanderson HaldaneAfter everything in the world had been done to make her as harmless as possible, she still remained non-ignorable.
Nonsenseorship | G. G. Putnam and Others
British Dictionary definitions for ignore
/ (ɪɡˈnɔː) /
to fail or refuse to notice; disregard
Australian informal disregard: to treat someone with ignore
Origin of ignore
1Derived forms of ignore
- ignorable, adjective
- ignorer, noun
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