Meanings
present singular third person ignores · participle present ignoring · participle past ignored · past ignored · first person past singular ignored · archaic present second person singular ignorest · past second person singular ignored · archaic past second person singular ignoredst · present singular third person ignores · archaic present singular third person ignoreth · past singular third person ignored · past plural ignored · past subjunctive ignored · participle present ignoring · participle past ignored
- transitiveTo deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
A problem ignored is a problem doubled.
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Ignore these four words.
2004, George Carlin, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 109One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools[…]as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53Synonyms: disregard, neglect · Antonyms: notice, recognize, watch, attend, clock, consider, give heed, heed
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
verbTo pretend to not notice someone or something.
More synonyms by meaning
verbbar from attention or consideration
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵneh₃-
- Latinīgnōrō
- Frenchignorer
- Englishignore
From French ignorer, from Latin ignōrō (“to have no knowledge of, mistake, take no notice of, ignore”), from ignārus (“not knowing”), from in- (“not”) + gnārus (“knowing”), from gnōscō, nōscō; see know.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans ignoreer
- ignoreerto deliberately pay no attention to
Arabic تَجَاهَلَ, طَنَّش
- تَجَاهَلَ (tajāhala)to deliberately pay no attention to
- طَنَّش (ṭannaš)to deliberately pay no attention to
Basque ez jakin
- ez jakinto deliberately pay no attention to
Bulgarian игнори́рам, пренебре́гвам
- игнори́рам (ignoríram)to deliberately pay no attention to
- пренебре́гвам (prenebrégvam)to deliberately pay no attention to
- пренебре́гна (prenebrégna)to deliberately pay no attention to
Catalan ignorar
- ignorarto deliberately pay no attention to
Chinese Mandarin 無視 /无视, 忽略
- 無視 /无视 (wúshì)to deliberately pay no attention to
- 忽略 (hūlüè)to deliberately pay no attention to
- 不理 (bù lǐ)to deliberately pay no attention to
- 不問 /不问 (bù wèn)to deliberately pay no attention to
Czech ignorovat
- ignorovatto deliberately pay no attention to
Danish ignorere
- ignorereto deliberately pay no attention to
Dutch negeren
- negerento deliberately pay no attention to
Esperanto ignori, malatenti
- ignorito deliberately pay no attention to
- malatentito deliberately pay no attention to
Estonian ignoreerida
- ignoreeridato deliberately pay no attention to
Finnish sivuuttaa, jättää huomiotta
- sivuuttaato deliberately pay no attention to
- jättää huomiottato deliberately pay no attention to
- ei ottaa huomioonto deliberately pay no attention to
- olla huomaamattato deliberately pay no attention to
- ohittaato deliberately pay no attention to
- olla välittämättäto deliberately pay no attention to
- ei välittääto deliberately pay no attention to
- nonsaleeratato deliberately pay no attention to
- ignooratato deliberately pay no attention to
- ignoroidato deliberately pay no attention to
French ignorer, ne pas prêter attention à
- ignorerto deliberately pay no attention to
- ne pas prêter attention àto deliberately pay no attention to
- ne pas tenir compte deto deliberately pay no attention to
German ignorieren, missachten
- ignorierento deliberately pay no attention to
- missachtento deliberately pay no attention to
Greek αγνοώ
- αγνοώ (agnoó)to deliberately pay no attention to
Hebrew הִתְעַלֵּם
- הִתְעַלֵּם (hit'além)to deliberately pay no attention to
Hindi उपेक्षा, उपेक्षा करना
- उपेक्षा (upekṣā)to deliberately pay no attention to
- उपेक्षा करना (upekṣā karnā)to deliberately pay no attention to
- अवहेलना करना (avhelnā karnā)to deliberately pay no attention to
- ध्यान न देना (dhyān na denā)to deliberately pay no attention to
Hungarian nem vesz tudomást róla
- nem vesz tudomást rólato deliberately pay no attention to
Icelandic hunsa
- hunsato deliberately pay no attention to
Indonesian mengabaikan
- mengabaikanto deliberately pay no attention to
Italian ignorare
- ignorareto deliberately pay no attention to
Japanese 無視する, 忽略する
- 無視する (mushi suru)to deliberately pay no attention to
- 忽略する (kotsuryaku suru)to deliberately pay no attention to
- 知らん顔する (shirankao suru)to deliberately pay no attention to
Korean 무시하다
- 무시하다 (musihada)to deliberately pay no attention to
Latin praetereō, neglegō
- praetereōto deliberately pay no attention to
- neglegōto deliberately pay no attention to
- ignōrōto deliberately pay no attention to
Latvian ignorēt
- ignorētto deliberately pay no attention to
Lithuanian ignoruoti
- ignoruotito deliberately pay no attention to
Māori pī, whakangongo
- pīto deliberately pay no attention to
- whakangongoto deliberately pay no attention to
- whakatuturito deliberately pay no attention to
- whakaririkato deliberately pay no attention to
Norwegian Bokmål ignorere, overse
- ignorereto deliberately pay no attention to
- overseto deliberately pay no attention to
Persian چشمپوشی کردن, نادیده گرفتن
- چشمپوشی کردن (čašm-puši kardan)to deliberately pay no attention to
- نادیده گرفتن (nâdide gereftan)to deliberately pay no attention to
Polish ignorować, zignorować
- ignorowaćto deliberately pay no attention to
- zignorowaćto deliberately pay no attention to
Portuguese ignorar
- ignorarto deliberately pay no attention to
Romanian ignora
- ignorato deliberately pay no attention to
Russian игнори́ровать, проигнори́ровать
- игнори́ровать (ignorírovatʹ)to deliberately pay no attention to
- проигнори́ровать (proignorírovatʹ)to deliberately pay no attention to
- пренебрега́ть (prenebregátʹ)to deliberately pay no attention to
- пренебре́чь (prenebréčʹ)to deliberately pay no attention to
- не принима́ть во внима́ние (ne prinimátʹ vo vnimánije)to deliberately pay no attention to
- не приня́ть во внима́ние (ne prinjátʹ vo vnimánije)to deliberately pay no attention to
Scottish Gaelic leig seachad
- leig seachadto deliberately pay no attention to
Slovak ignorovať
- ignorovaťto deliberately pay no attention to
Spanish ignorar, desoír
- ignorarto deliberately pay no attention to
- desoírto deliberately pay no attention to
- ningunearto deliberately pay no attention to
- desatencionarto deliberately pay no attention to
Swahili puuza
- puuzato deliberately pay no attention to
Swedish ignorera
- ignorerato deliberately pay no attention to
Tagalog balewalain
- balewalainto deliberately pay no attention to
Tamil புறக்கணிக்கவும்
- புறக்கணிக்கவும் (puṟakkaṇikkavum)to deliberately pay no attention to
Thai เมิน
- เมิน (məən)to deliberately pay no attention to
Turkish görmezden gelmek
- görmezden gelmekto deliberately pay no attention to
Ukrainian ігнорува́ти, проігнорува́ти
- ігнорува́ти (ihnoruváty)to deliberately pay no attention to
- проігнорува́ти (proihnoruváty)to deliberately pay no attention to
- зігнорува́ти (zihnoruváty)to deliberately pay no attention to
- не́хтувати (néxtuvaty)to deliberately pay no attention to
- зне́хтувати (znéxtuvaty)to deliberately pay no attention to
Urdu نطر انداز کرنا
- نطر انداز کرناto deliberately pay no attention to
Vietnamese lơ, lờ
- lơto deliberately pay no attention to
- lờto deliberately pay no attention to
- bơto deliberately pay no attention to
Welsh anwybyddu
- anwybydduto deliberately pay no attention to
Yiddish איגנאָרירן
- איגנאָרירן (ignorirm)to deliberately pay no attention to
Zulu nganaki
- nganakito deliberately pay no attention to
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Cite this entry
ignore. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ignore
“ignore.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ignore. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ignore,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ignore.
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