Meanings
noundisregard (usually uncountable, plural disregards)
plural disregards
- uncountableusuallyThe act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something.
The government's blithe disregard for the needs of disabled people is outrageous.
2 more examples
The guard was paying no attention whatever to the running of his train, in total disregard of rules, and, as the recently-published report of a Ministry of Transport Inspecting Officer of Railways shows, there were other disquieting features in the case, such as ignorance on the part of responsible men of rules and appendix instructions and a lax attitude to regulations of which they professed to be aware, combined with failure to look at staff notice boards.
1956 September, “Notes and News: The Barby Sidings Accident Report”, in Railway Magazine, page 638The Trump administration’s disregard for due process has been a pattern in the legal disputes over his immigration policies.
2025 April 8, John Fritze, “Supreme Court ruling on Alien Enemies Act raises new due process concerns for migrants”, in CNN
verbdisregard (third-person singular simple present disregards, present participle disregarding, simple past and past participle disregarded)
present singular third person disregards · participle present disregarding · participle past disregarded · past disregarded
- transitiveTo ignore; to pay no attention to.
If you break the law, they will send you a letter. You disregard that they will send someone with a suit to your house. If you disregard Suit-Boy, you will be sent a subpoena. You disregard that they will send men with guns and dogs to your house.
2012, Augusto Vieira, How to Build a New Government: A Guide for the Coming Revolution, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 151 more example
Half of the mock jurors that were told he had insurance were told to disregard that information. Mock jurors who were instructed to disregard the information awarded the defendant more money than participants who did not know the defendant had insurance, or knew that he had insurance but were not told to disregard this information.
2013, Jonathan M. Golding, Colin M. MacLeod, Intentional Forgetting: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 61
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe act or state of deliberately not paying attention or caring about something.
More synonyms by meaning
verbbar from attention or consideration
Broader
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Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From dis- + regard. Compare misregard.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Ancient Greek περιοράω, ἐξουθενέω
- περιοράω (perioráō)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- ἐξουθενέω (exouthenéō)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Arabic إِهْمال
- إِهْمال (ʔihmāl)not paying attention or caring about
Bulgarian пренебрежение, незачитане
- пренебрежение (prenebreženie)not paying attention or caring about
- незачитане (nezačitane)not paying attention or caring about
- пренебрегвам (prenebregvam)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- игнорирам (ignoriram)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Catalan indiferència, desconsideració
- indiferèncianot paying attention or caring about
- desconsideraciónot paying attention or caring about
- prescindirto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- ignorarto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Chinese Mandarin 忽視 /忽视, 漠視 /漠视
- 忽視 /忽视 (hūshì)not paying attention or caring about
- 漠視 /漠视 (mòshì)not paying attention or caring about
- 無視 /无视 (wúshì)not paying attention or caring about
Czech přehlížet
- přehlížetto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Danish ignoreren, ligegyldighed
- ignorerennot paying attention or caring about
- ligegyldighednot paying attention or caring about
- affejeto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- se bort frato ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- lade hånt omto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Dutch verontachtzaming, veronachtzamen
- verontachtzamingnot paying attention or caring about
- veronachtzamento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- negerento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Finnish välinpitämättömyys, piittaamattomuus
- välinpitämättömyysnot paying attention or caring about
- piittaamattomuusnot paying attention or caring about
- jättää huomiottato ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- väheksyäto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- ohittaato ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
French mépris, ignorer
- méprisnot paying attention or caring about
- ignorerto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- mépriserto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
German Gleichgültigkeit, Nichtbeachten
- Gleichgültigkeitnot paying attention or caring about
- Nichtbeachtennot paying attention or caring about
- Nichtbeachtungnot paying attention or caring about
- Missachtungnot paying attention or caring about
- Zurücksetzungnot paying attention or caring about
- Geringschätzungnot paying attention or caring about
- Geringachtungnot paying attention or caring about
- missachtento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- außer Betracht lassento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- übersehento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- vernachlässigento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- ignorierento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- ausklammernto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- ausblendento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- nicht berücksichtigento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- übergehento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- nicht beachtento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- vorbeigehento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- außer Acht lassento ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Greek παραθεωρώ
- παραθεωρώ (paratheoró)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Hindi अवहेलना, अवमानना
- अवहेलना (avhelnā)not paying attention or caring about
- अवमानना (avmānnā)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Hungarian semmibevevés, nemtörődömség
- semmibevevésnot paying attention or caring about
- nemtörődömségnot paying attention or caring about
- semmibe veszto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- figyelmen kívül hagyto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- számításon kívül hagyto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Italian ignorare, non considerare
- ignorareto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- non considerareto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Latin sēpōnō, omittō
- sēpōnōnot paying attention or caring about
- omittōto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- ignōrōto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Lithuanian nepaisyti
- nepaisytito ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Māori pī, piki
- pīto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- pikito ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- whakatuturito ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- takahito ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Norwegian Bokmål avfeie, se bort fra
- avfeieto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- se bort frato ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Polish lekceważyć
- lekceważyćto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Portuguese desconsideração, ignorar
- desconsideraçãonot paying attention or caring about
- ignorarto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- desconsiderarto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Romanian desconsiderare, dispreț
- desconsiderarenot paying attention or caring about
- disprețnot paying attention or caring about
- discreditarenot paying attention or caring about
- nepăsarenot paying attention or caring about
- indiferențănot paying attention or caring about
- desconsiderato ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- ignorato ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Russian пренебреже́ние, игнори́рование
- пренебреже́ние (prenebrežénije)not paying attention or caring about
- игнори́рование (ignorírovanije)not paying attention or caring about
- пренебрега́ть (prenebregátʹ)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- пренебре́чь (prenebréčʹ)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- игнори́ровать (ignorírovatʹ)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- проигнори́ровать (proignorírovatʹ)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- не обраща́ть внима́ния (ne obraščátʹ vnimánija)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- не обрати́ть внима́ния (ne obratítʹ vnimánija)to ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Scottish Gaelic dìmeas
- dìmeasnot paying attention or caring about
Spanish abulia, displicencia
- abulianot paying attention or caring about
- displicencianot paying attention or caring about
- desmiramientonot paying attention or caring about
- falta de reguardonot paying attention or caring about
- desidianot paying attention or caring about
- incurianot paying attention or caring about
- desgananot paying attention or caring about
- pretericiónnot paying attention or caring about
- desoírto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- no tener en cuentato ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- ningunearto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- preterirto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- abstraer(se) deto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Swedish bortse från, ignorera
- bortse frånto ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
- ignorerato ignore — see also neglect, overlook, dismiss, shrug off, put aside, ignore, disattend
Turkish aldırmazlık, takmama
- aldırmazlıknot paying attention or caring about
- takmamanot paying attention or caring about
- umursamamanot paying attention or caring about
- uymamanot paying attention or caring about
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with disregard
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All rhymes →Cite this entry
APA
disregard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disregard
MLA
“disregard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disregard. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disregard,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disregard.
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