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.
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forget, avoid, overlook, discount, reject, fail, scorn, neglect, disdain, omit, slight, blink, wink, evade, pooh-pooh, cold-shoulder, overpassExamples from the Web for ignore
Contemporary Examples of ignore
When it comes to educating our children, Congress should heed that message, not ignore it.
But the increasing number of fraudsters bringing back wares to stores to make an illicit killing has become impossible to ignore.
Watters and other critics also ignore the fact that the whole report is based on CIA documents.
I am only able to ignore because I have had to have these conversations in person and that is the most traumatic experience.
“It is forbidden in Islam to ignore the reality of contemporary times when deriving legal rulings,” they argued.
Historical Examples of ignore
There was a masterful quality in his declaration, which seemed to ignore her negation.
Within the LawMarvin Dana
I resolved to ignore them as far as possible: to treat them, that is to say, as modes of imperfection.
De ProfundisOscar Wilde
Active opposition I could fight; but the tactics are now to ignore me.
The Bacillus of BeautyHarriet Stark
Mulready seemed to ignore Calendar and address himself to the captain.
The Black BagLouis Joseph Vance
And his instinct told him withal that he must ignore her mood if he would win her from it.
Good IndianB. M. Bower
ignore
- to fail or refuse to notice; disregard
- Australian informal disregardto treat someone with ignore
Word Origin for ignore
Word Origin and History for ignore
1610s, "not to know, to be ignorant of," from French ignorer "be unaware of," from Latin ignorare "not to know, disregard" (see ignorant). Sense of "pay no attention to" first recorded 1801 (Barnhart says "probably a dictionary word"), and not common until c.1850. Related: Ignored; ignoring.