transitive verb
1
: to refuse to take notice of
2
: to reject (a bill of indictment) as ungrounded
Synonyms
Choose the Right Synonym for ignore
habitually neglected his studies
disregard suggests voluntary inattention.
disregarded the wishes of his family
ignore implies a failure to regard something obvious.
overlook suggests disregarding or ignoring through haste or lack of care.
in my rush I overlooked a key example
slight implies contemptuous or disdainful disregarding or omitting.
slighted several major authors in her survey
forget may suggest either a willful ignoring or a failure to impress something on one’s mind.
Example Sentences
She tried to ignore him but he wouldn’t leave her alone.
I’ll ignore that last remark.
If we continue to ignore these problems they will only get worse.
They ignored the warning signs.
Recent Examples on the Web
Crypto proponents argue that such networks expand access to new forms of investment to underserved populations who have been largely ignored by traditional financial institutions.
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Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 8 Apr. 2023
April 4, 2023 The shove came amid an escalation by state Republicans to silence and ignore not only their fellow lawmakers but also thousands of residents demanding action so children stop being killed at school.
—Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
She’s always been there for the people who don’t have a voice, who get ignored, kicked to the curb.
—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
His request was rejected by most, and ignored by the rest.
—Sydney Page, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023
The crowd was young, well dressed, and mostly ignoring the basketball game on the bar’s televisions.
—Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2023
Scott and Warren outlined a number of requests made by both Republican and Democratic senators over the last three months that have been ignored by the DOD.
—Cami Mondeaux, Washington Examiner, 1 Apr. 2023
Different ways inventions could, and did, go south First, Smil tells of promises undermined by enormous but unforeseen—or completely foreseen but downplayed and ignored—downsides.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2023
My op-ed wasn’t about students like those, but the increasingly militant minority that menaces and humiliates invited guests, and whose doings are whitewashed or ignored by administrators.
—WSJ, 31 Mar. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
obsolete ignore to be ignorant of, from French ignorer, from Latin ignorare, from ignarus ignorant, unknown, from in- + gnoscere, noscere to know — more at know
First Known Use
1801, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Time Traveler
The first known use of ignore was
in 1801
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“Ignore.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ignore. Accessed 14 Apr. 2023.
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
игнорировать, пренебрегать, пропускать, отклонять
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Словосочетания
the inalterable record of history, which we ignore at our peril — неизменный исторический факт, который мы игнорируем на свой страх и риск 
to ignore a fact — игнорировать факт
to ignore completely / totally — совершенно игнорировать
to ignore smb.’s recommendation — поступиться чьим-л. советом
to ignore a bill — отказать в передаче дела в суд (о большом жюри)
ignore unwanted advice — пренебречь непрошенным советом; пренебречь непрошеным советом
block ignore — символ аннулирования
ignore a prohibition — игнорировать запрет
ignore a quantity — пренебрегать величиной
ignore a regulation — игнорировать постановление; игнорировать правило
ignore a rule — не придерживаться правила
Примеры с переводом
I’ll ignore that last remark.
Я проигнорирую последнее замечание/высказывание.
I chose to ignore his advice.
Я решил не слушать его советов.
I tried to stay calm and just ignore him.
Я старался сохранять спокойствие и просто игнорировал его.
It would be foolish to ignore his advice.
Было бы глупо не прислушаться к его совету.
The phone rang, but she ignored it.
Зазвонил телефон, но она не обратила на него внимания.
They ignored the warning signs.
Они оставили без внимания /проигнорировали/ предупредительные знаки.
Sam rudely ignored the question.
Сэм нагло проигнорировал этот вопрос. / Сэм пропустил вопрос мимо ушей.
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Примеры, ожидающие перевода
Don’t ignore the fog warning signs. 
It would not be politic to ignore the reporters.
…she tried to ignore the feel of the prickly grass against her skin…
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Возможные однокоренные слова
ignorance — невежество, незнание, неведение, безграмотность
ignorant — невежественный, несведущий, безграмотный, невоспитанный, неотесанный
ignorable — игнорируемый, такой, которым можно пренебречь
Формы слова
verb
I/you/we/they: ignore
he/she/it: ignores
ing ф. (present participle): ignoring
2-я ф. (past tense): ignored
3-я ф. (past participle): ignored
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French ignorer, from Latin ignōrō (“to have no knowledge of, mistake, take no notice of, ignore”), from ignārus (“not knowing”), from in + gnārus (“knowing”), from gnōscō, nōscō; see know.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ĭgnôʹ, IPA(key): /ɪɡˈnɔː/
- (US) enPR: ĭgnôrʹ, IPA(key): /ɪɡˈnɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ĭgnōrʹ, IPA(key): /ɪɡˈno(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /ɪɡˈnoə/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: ig‧nore
Verb[edit]
ignore (third-person singular simple present ignores, present participle ignoring, simple past and past participle ignored) (transitive)
- To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
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A problem ignored is a problem doubled.
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2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
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One 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.
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2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:
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The 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.
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- Synonyms: misheed, neglect, unmind, unheed; see also Thesaurus:ignore
- Antonyms: notice, recognize, watch; see also Thesaurus:pay attention
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- To pretend to not notice someone or something.
- Synonyms: connive, dissimulate, overlook, turn a blind eye to, wink at
- Antonyms: notice, observe
- (obsolete) Fail to notice.
- Synonyms: misheed, overlook; see also Thesaurus:fail to notice
- (obsolete) Not to know.
- Synonym: be ignorant of
- Antonym: know
Derived terms[edit]
- ignorable
- ignore all rules
[edit]
- ignorance
- ignoral
- ignorant
Translations[edit]
to deliberately pay no attention to
- Afrikaans: ignoreer
- Albanian: injoroj
- Arabic: تَجَاهَلَ (tajāhala)
- Gulf Arabic: طنش
- Armenian: անտեսել (hy) (antesel), նշկահել (hy) (nškahel)
- Assamese: please add this translation if you can
- Basque: ez jakin
- Belarusian: ігнарава́ць impf or pf (ihnaravácʹ)
- Bulgarian: игнори́рам (bg) impf or pf (ignoríram), пренебре́гвам (bg) impf (prenebrégvam), пренебре́гна pf (prenebrégna)
- Catalan: ignorar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 忽視／忽视 (zh) (hūshì), 忽略 (zh) (hūlüè), 不理 (bù lǐ), 不問／不问 (bù wèn)
- Czech: ignorovat (cs) impf
- Danish: ignorere
- Dutch: negeren (nl)
- Esperanto: ignori (eo)
- Estonian: please add this translation if you can
- Faroese: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: sivuuttaa (fi), jättää huomiotta, ei ottaa huomioon, olla huomaamatta, ohittaa (fi), olla välittämättä, ei välittää, nonsaleerata, ignoroida (fi)
- French: ignorer (fr), ne pas prêter attention (fr) à, ne pas tenir compte (fr) de
- Galician: ignorar (gl)
- Georgian: უგულებელყოფს (ugulebelq̇ops)
- German: ignorieren (de), missachten (de)
- Greek: αγνοώ (el) (agnoó)
- Hebrew: הִתְעַלֵּם (he) (hit’além)
- Hindi: उपेक्षा करना (upekṣā karnā), अवहेलना करना (avhelnā karnā), ध्यान न देना (dhyān na denā)
- Hungarian: nem vesz tudomást róla
- Icelandic: hunsa
- Ido: ignorar (io)
- Indonesian: mengabaikan (id)
- Interlingua: ignorar
- Italian: ignorare (it)
- Japanese: 無視する (ja) (むしする, mushi suru), 忽略する (ja) (こつりゃくする, kotsuryaku suru), 知らん顔する (しらんかおする, shirankao suru)
- Khmer: មិនធ្វើដឹងធ្វើឬ (mɨn tvəə dəŋ tvəə rɨɨ), ធ្វើថ្លង់ធ្វើគ (tvəə tlɑŋ tvəə kɔɔ)
- Korean: 무시하다 (ko) (musihada)
- Latin: ignōrō
- Latvian: please add this translation if you can
- Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
- Luxembourgish: ignoréieren
- Macedonian: игнори́ра impf or pf (ignoríra)
- Maltese: please add this translation if you can
- Maori: pī, whakangongo, whakatuturi, whakaririka (provocation)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ignorere, overse
- Occitan: ignorar (oc)
- Persian: چشمپوشی کردن (čašm-puši kardan), نادیده گرفتن (fa) (nâdide gereftan)
- Polish: ignorować (pl) impf, zignorować (pl) pf
- Portuguese: ignorar (pt)
- Romanian: ignora (ro)
- Russian: игнори́ровать (ru) impf (ignorírovatʹ), проигнори́ровать (ru) pf (proignorírovatʹ), пренебрега́ть (ru) impf (prenebregátʹ), пренебре́чь (ru) pf (prenebréčʹ), не принима́ть во внима́ние impf (ne prinimátʹ vo vnimánije), не приня́ть во внима́ние pf (ne prinjátʹ vo vnimánije)
- Scottish Gaelic: leig seachad
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: игнори́сати impf or pf, игнори́рати impf or pf
- Roman: ignorísati impf or pf, ignorírati (sh) impf or pf
- Slovak: ignorovať impf
- Slovene: ignorirati impf
- Spanish: ignorar (es), desoír (es)
- Swahili: puuza (sw)
- Swedish: ignorera (sv)
- Tagalog: balewalain
- Telugu: విస్మరించు (vismariñcu)
- Thai: เมิน (th) (məən)
- Turkish: görmezden gelmek (tr)
- Ukrainian: ігнорува́ти impf (ihnoruváty), проігнорува́ти pf (proihnoruváty), зігнорува́ти pf (zihnoruváty) (rare), не́хтувати impf (néxtuvaty), зне́хтувати pf (znéxtuvaty)
- Vietnamese: lơ (vi), lờ (vi), bơ (vi)
Further reading[edit]
- ignore in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- “ignore”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Anagrams[edit]
- Regino, eringo, ingoer, region
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /i.ɲɔʁ/
Verb[edit]
ignore
- inflection of ignorer:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams[edit]
- région
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
ignore
- inflection of ignorar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Romanian[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): [iɡˈno.re]
Verb[edit]
ignore
- third-person singular/plural present subjunctive of ignora
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
ignore
- inflection of ignorar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
ignoré — ignoré, ée [ iɲɔre ] adj. • de ignorer ♦ Qui n est pas su, connu. ⇒ inconnu. Événements ignorés, qui sont restés ignorés. Vivre ignoré, ignoré de tous. ⇒ obscur. ⊗ CONTR. Célèbre. ignoré,ée adj. Inconnu ou méconnu. Talent ignoré. ⇒IGNORÉ, ÉE,… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Ignore — Ig*nore , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ignored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Ignoring}.] [L. ignorare; pref. in not + the root of gnarus knowing, noscere to become acquainted with. See {Know}, and cf. {Narrate}.] 1. To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
ignoré — ignoré, ée (i gno ré, rée) part. passé d ignorer. 1° Qui n est pas su. L histoire ignorée de ceux qui devraient la savoir. 2° Qui n est pas connu, en parlant des personnes. • Qu heureux est le mortel qui, du monde ignoré, Vit content de soi … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d’Émile Littré
ignore — [ig nôr′] vt. ignored, ignoring [Fr ignorer < L ignorare, to have no knowledge of, ignore < in , not + base of gnarus, knowing < IE base * ĝnā , * g̑nō , KNOW] 1. to disregard deliberately; pay no attention to; refuse to consider 2. Law… … English World dictionary
ignore — I verb abstain from recognizing, be blind to, be inattentive, be rude, boycott, brush aside, bypass, cut, discard, disclaim, disdain, disregard, dodge, elude, evade, give the cold shoulder, hold in contempt, intentionally disregard, let slide,… … Law dictionary
ignore — (v.) 1610s, not to know, to be ignorant of, from Fr. ignorer be unaware of, from L. ignorare not to know, disregard (see IGNORANT (Cf. ignorant)). Sense of pay no attention to first recorded 1801 (Barnhart says probably a dictionary word ), and… … Etymology dictionary
ignore — disregard, overlook, slight, *neglect, omit, forget Analogous words: blink, *wink: evade, elude, *escape, avoid, shun, eschew Antonyms: heed (a warning, a sign, a symptom): acknowledge (sense 2) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
ignore — [v] disregard on purpose avoid, be oblivious to, blink, brush off*, bury one’s head in sand*, cold shoulder*, discount, disdain, evade, fail, forget, let it go*, neglect, omit, overlook, overpass, pass over, pay no attention to, pay no mind*,… … New thesaurus
ignoré — Ignoré, [ignor]ée. part … Dictionnaire de l’Académie française
ignore — ► VERB 1) disregard intentionally. 2) fail to consider (something significant). ORIGIN Latin ignorare not know … English terms dictionary
ignore — verb ADVERB ▪ altogether, completely, entirely, totally, utterly ▪ almost, practically, virtually ▪ effectively … Collocations dictionary
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. ❋ Unknown (2008)
McCain states that the images from abu are the greatest recruiting tool imaginable for AQ, what he and most on the right seem to be ignore is that the problem isn’t the photos, it’s the actual policies and actions. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What you ignore is the fact that most ID supporters don’t believe in a purely naturalistic evolutionary process. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But I think one thing you ignore is that ‘appearing to fight’ might actually strengthen your hand. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What those comments ignore is that many churches are already involved. ❋ Unknown (2010)
What many doves forget/ignore is that the Cold War is over. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Another thing, what you ignore is that transfer programs (programs that tax one group and provide benefits to another) do not transfer income to a powerful central gov’t in the sense that Jefferson would have understood. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What most media reports ignore is that the epidemic has been years in the making. ❋ Crossover Dreams (2010)
The problem, that economists force themselves to ignore, is that the immediate benefits of governnment growth depend upon the marginal benefit/cost ratio at various income levels. ❋ Unknown (2009)
What they choose to ignore is that she is a strong advocate for the health care of children, for prenatal care for women and for preventive medicine. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The key quote you ignore is “None of the attorneys under investigation were identified in the Post report.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
Of course, what Pawlenty and the Republicans ignore is the fact that the private, unregulated market failed miserably under the GOP Administration and Congress to address the needs of Americans – our banking system failed, our auto industry failed, our health care system is failing, our energy system is failing. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The facts that Republicans like to ignore is that climate change does weird things to weather. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The point, which dipshits like you continually ignore is that Mrs. Tebow was GIVEN THE CHOICE. ❋ Unknown (2010)
the hot girl walking down the street [IGNORED] the [scumbag] looking guy because she was a bitch, little did she know he was [hung like a] fuckin’ horse… ❋ Jimbo (2003)
Q:baby I missed you today!
J: ya [sorry I] turned [my phone] off to ignore you!
Q: please [talk to me] babe
J: about what 😘 ❋ … Zjdbckdnznsjd (2019)
mathguy44: Actually «1.[999]…» is exactly 2. When you get to high school you’ll learn this.
awsomeguy69: sorry but your just stupid. [welcome] to my ignore list [looser] ❋ Auaiomrn (2011)
Q:baby I missed you today!
J: ya [sorry I] turned [my phone] off to ignore you!
Q: please [talk to me] babe
J: about what 😘 ❋ … Zjdbckdnznsjd (2019)
Ignored
Friend — Did she ever [reply] [to you]?
Me — [Nah], but it’s all cool. ❋ Heartlessfiigure (2018)
obama decided it best to place [wis] [wife’s] comments [in a state] of ignoration. ❋ Em Bee Kay (2008)
❋ Sure (2003)
your such a [stupid idiot] /[ignore] [300] melmelz ❋ Jrelax (2009)
Unfortunately, the [youth] of today choose ignorance as a «[Badge] of [Courage].» ❋ Knowledge (2003)
Person 1: Ugh, I can’t believe «person 2» isn’t replying to my messages!!! How [ignorant]!!!
Person 2: ….[Well then], I guess I’ll be getting you [a dictionary] for Christmas. ❋ HayleyHiccupBuscus (2013)