Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To refuse to pay attention to; disregard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Archaic To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.
- transitive verb (Law) To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for lack of evidence. See
Ignoramus . - transitive verb Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To deliberately pay no attention to.
- verb obsolete Fail to notice.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb fail to notice
- verb bar from attention or consideration
- verb refuse to acknowledge
- verb give little or no attention to
- verb be ignorant of or in the dark about
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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How can a conference of this title ignore the effect on Israel of being kept at war by its enemies for over 60 years if its organisers are not themselves biased.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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How can a conference of this title ignore the effect on Israel of being kept at war by its enemies for over 60 years if its organisers are not themselves biased.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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What many doves forget/ignore is that the Cold War is over.
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What you ignore is the fact that most ID supporters don't believe in a purely naturalistic evolutionary process.
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What many doves forget/ignore is that the Cold War is over.
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The key quote you ignore is “None of the attorneys under investigation were identified in the Post report.”
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The facts that Republicans like to ignore is that climate change does weird things to weather.
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What most media reports ignore is that the epidemic has been years in the making.
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The point, which dipshits like you continually ignore is that Mrs. Tebow was GIVEN THE CHOICE.
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What most media reports ignore is that the epidemic has been years in the making.
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