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Ignore

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To refuse to pay attention to; disregard.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To deliberately pay no attention to.

v. Fail to notice.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.

v. To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for lack of evidence. See Ignoramus.

v. Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Not to know; be ignorant of.

To pass over or by without notice; treat as if not known; shut the eyes to; leave out of account; disregard: as, to ignore facts.

In law, to throw out as being unsupported by evidence. See ignoramus, 1.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. fail to notice

v. bar from attention or consideration

v. refuse to acknowledge

v. give little or no attention to

v. be ignorant of or in the dark about

Word Usage

"The facts that Republicans like to ignore is that climate change does weird things to weather."

Antonym

attend notice consider mention watch

Verb Form

ignored ignores ignoring

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

do by handle treat

Variant

ignoramus

Hyponym

pass up pretermit

Form

ignorable

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

disregard pass overlook bury elude sink blink overjump skip disimagine

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Boer Bohr C4 Dior Dore Flore Fore Gabor Gore Igor

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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