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
That’s why if you’re primarily targeting Gen Z, your business can’t afford to ignore TikTok.
What you must know about TikTok for business | Connie Benton | September 17, 2020 | Search Engine WatchHe called for executives to ignore the distraction of the myriad social responsibilities that go beyond the legal minimum.
The ghost of Milton Friedman will haunt the markets until companies fix CEO pay | Judith Samuelson | September 16, 2020 | QuartzWe’ve seen many universities ignore the warnings of behavioral scientists and reopen their campuses, only to have to quickly shut them back down.
Why Coming Up With Effective Interventions To Address COVID-19 Is So Hard | Neil Lewis Jr. (nlewisjr@cornell.edu) | September 14, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightPotts said she’d learned to tolerate and ignore sexual harassment, as most of her co-workers were men.
The Woman Propositioned by Alaska’s Former Lieutenant Governor Tells Her Story for the First Time | by Kyle Hopkins and Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News | September 10, 2020 | ProPublicaThese traders often ignore legal requirements, like the know-your-customer laws that make many bigger cryptocurrency exchanges risky places to launder stolen billions.
North Korean hackers steal billions in cryptocurrency. How do they turn it into real cash? | Patrick O'Neill | September 10, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
“The government just wanted to catch the big fish [in the Juarez cartel] and they ignored everything in between,” Lozoya said.
An Informant, a Missing American, and Juarez’s House of Death: Inside the 12-Year Cold Case of David Castro | Bill Conroy | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTHe no doubt had heard by then that some of the cops had ignored his request and turned their backs.
Completed in 1953 and composed with standard line breaks and punctuation, the book was completely ignored upon submission.
The hullaballoo over the female writer who came forward saying that her objections to the episode were ignored will be remembered.
'The Newsroom' Ended As It Began: Weird, Controversial, and Noble | Kevin Fallon | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd the role of the Obama administration, which slow-rolled the release of the report for five years, was all but ignored.
Hys ignored the acid tone of her answer and sat down on the couch next to them.
Sense of Obligation | Henry Maxwell Dempsey (AKA Harry Harrison)It is only a lower stratum, but still it is a part of terra firma, and on no account is it to be ignored.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)She ignored his very presence, though readily, eagerly forthcoming to the smallest sign from Tony.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodIsabel, completely ignored, waited until the story was finished, and then made a deliberate move.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonHe was a most estimable person, but he never ignored an opportunity to talk with a new and interesting woman.
Ancestors | Gertrude Atherton
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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