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ignore English

Meaning ignore meaning

What does ignore mean?
Definitions in simple English

ignore Verb

— If you ignore someone or something, you don't listen to, look at, or pay attention to them. He says he should be paid for fixing it, but he's ignoring the fact that it wasn't broken.

ignore

— verb (= cut) refuse to acknowledge She cut him dead at the meeting — verb (= dismiss) bar from attention or consideration She dismissed his advances — verb fail to notice — verb (= disregard) give little or no attention to Disregard the errors — verb be ignorant of or in the dark about

Synonyms ignore synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as ignore?

ignore English » English

disregard neglect overlook slight snub reject pay no attention to leave out of account forget dismiss pass over be indifferent be inattentive scorn leave as is leave alone flout discount despise cut connive abandon unlearn turn away from talk over shun set aside refuse to recognize push aside postpone pay no heed to pay no heed pass by omit not know miss disobey brush off brush aside be ignorant of without taking any interest waive unknow turn one’s back on turn deaf ear to turn back on turn a deaf ear to turn a deaf ear turn a blind eye to treat with contempt

Topics ignore topics

What do people use ignore to talk about?
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Ignore
Language and thought Soul, spirit Mental state

Attention
Language and thought Think Mind

Think about
Language and thought Communication Say Speak with others

Greet
Language and thought Want Influence

Advise

Conjugation ignore conjugation

How do you conjugate ignore?

ignore · verb

Examples ignore examples

How do I use ignore in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It wouldn't be wise to ignore Tom completely.
I can't ignore it anymore.
It's better to ignore his eccentricities.
Were I you, I would ignore it.
It is better to ignore this point.
I believe the police will ignore you.
If the phone rings again, I will ignore it.
Such was his pride that he could not bring himself to ignore the insult.
He noticed a hole in his jacket, but he tried to ignore it.
It's dangerous to ignore the signal at a railroad crossing.
Tom says he can't ignore the smell any longer.
Tom says he can't ignore the noise any longer.
Tom refused to continue to ignore the way Mary was behaving at school.
Those who ignore rather than fulfill their need for sleep will soon encounter serious effects on their health.
He had the boldness to ignore my advice.
Don't ignore her feelings.
Ignore him.
He had the gall to ignore my advice.
He dared ignore my advice.
Tom's constant arguing irritates some of his classmates. However, most of the class has just learned to ignore him.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Why do you ignore me?

Movie subtitles

And it's a story we ignore at our peril, because today, after half a millennium of tilting westwards, the world seems inexorably to be tilting to the East.
Do you really want to know how serious the crime is for the officers to ignore their own Magistrate?
I gave her the best advice, and she chose to ignore it.
It's hard to ignore.
However being a little underweight he would ignore the insult.
I'm so hungry, and you just ignore me!
And you're just going to ignore that it's only time before she kills again?
We can't ignore this.
We have no right to ignore such a special moment.
He can't very well ignore me now, can he?
First, you used to ask me about things, then you told me, now you ignore me.
Thejury will ignore the exchange between counsel.
Ignore the whole thing. The next day, they're dying to see you.
I turned away to ignore him, and he kicked me!
I wish I were in a position to ignore the whole matter, but you know, madame, the stock market, a bank crash.
A fact we can't ignore.
Sherriff reread HG Wells' novel after many years, and wondered why so many writers of the previous scripts had chosen to ignore what Universal had purchased.
I can't ask you to ignore the gentler sex.
You can't afford to ignore the press.
Ignore him.
Of course, we have to ignore the conventions and, well, we've got to expect to put up with certain penalties. And it'll be worth it, won't it, dear?
It's now so large, we can no longer ignore it.
One can't ignore it.
We'll ignore the dailies and send it to the American Museum of Art.
Ignore it. Ignore the whole thing.
Ignore the interruption.
Just ignore her.
I definitely won't press ignore. on this case.
Gentlemen, I ask you to ignore these and other future noises.
Well, let's ignore him.
We can't just ignore him.
As far as I'm concerned, I can ignore the whole thing. Get out.
Just ignore us.
I've decided to ignore it and follow your plan.

News and current affairs

But a cultural heritage should not be maintained everywhere, nor should it ignore cost.
Global warming is a risk that we simply cannot afford to ignore anymore.
COPENHAGEN - Public skepticism about global warming may be growing, but the scientific consensus is as solid as ever: man-made climate change is real, and we ignore it at our peril.
We feel responsible, on a global level, for the environment, which is why we disagree with unilateral decisions by individual nations when such decisions ignore the needs of the rest of the world.
As far as we know, Kundera never was an informer before or after this incident, and we cannot ignore that he later freed himself from the compulsory totalitarian happiness that communism propagated.
And, as long as housing prices rose as a result of lower interest rates, Americans could ignore their growing indebtedness.
In this sense, they ignore the fact that the European Union's Stability and Growth Pact has been in principle an important component of political union, not its substitute.
Every policeman knows that when you ignore criminal behavior, criminals grow bolder.
Those who believe - often with quasi-religious conviction - that we need even more Keynesian fiscal stimulus, and should ignore government debt, seem to me to be panicking.
It is difficult to ask citizens to be enthusiastic about aims that their leaders ignore.
You ignore social and political contexts at your peril.
A bailout just enriches creditors and lets them continue irresponsible gambling and ignore macroeconomic realities.
Fourth, the world's poor regions need to be seen as investment opportunities, not as threats or places to ignore.
How can we ignore that a high number of inmates commit suicide - self-inflicted capital punishment - to escape the inhumanity of their imprisonment?
Outrage about a professor who is not to be messed with is not the best way to discuss the plight of countless, poor, anonymous people, whom most of us find it too easy to ignore.
Officials and others who favor stimulating growth through increased government spending ignore the CBO's more realistic alternative scenario.
This is not to ignore important US-China trade issues that need to be addressed.
In the case of Palin - and especially that of Bachmann - we ignore the wide appeal of right-wing feminism at our peril.
In engaging Iran, the West should ignore the nature of its regime.
And there are Muslims who ignore the Koran's commands of pluralism, tolerance, and peace.
How can we ignore that many states today kill not only through legal punishment, but also by murdering and massacring in international or civil wars, or by allowing starvation?

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