ignore

See also: ignoré

English

Etymology

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

• (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/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: ig‧nore

Verb

ignore (third-person singular simple present ignores, present participle ignoring, simple past and past participle ignored) (transitive)

1. To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.

   A problem ignored is a problem doubled.

   • 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:

     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.

   Synonyms: misheed, neglect, unmind, unheed; see also Thesaurus:ignore

   Antonyms: notice, recognize, watch; see also Thesaurus:pay attention

   • 2004, Carlin, George, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?‎^[1], New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, OCLC 757869006, OL 24604921M, page 109:

     Ignore these four words.

2. To pretend to not notice someone or something.

   Synonyms: connive, dissimulate, overlook, turn a blind eye to, wink at

   Antonyms: notice, observe

3. (obsolete) Fail to notice.

   Synonyms: misheed, overlook; see also Thesaurus:fail to notice

4. (obsolete) Not to know.

   Synonym: be ignorant of

   Antonym: know

Derived terms

• ignorable

Related terms

• ignorance
• ignorant

Translations

to deliberately pay no attention to

• Afrikaans: ignoreer
• Albanian: injoroj
• Arabic: تَجَاهَلَ‎ (tajāhala)
• Armenian: անտեսել (hy) (antesel), նշկահել (hy) (nškahel)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• 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 (zh), 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)
• 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)
• Hungarian: nem vesz tudomást róla
• Icelandic: hunsa
• Ido: ignorar (io)
• 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
• Luxembourgish: ignoréieren
• Macedonian: игнори́ра impf or pf (ignoríra)
• 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 pf
• Portuguese: ignorar (pt)
• 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)
• 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

• ignore in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ignore in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Regino, eringo, ingoer, region

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ɲɔʁ/

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Verb

ignore

1. first-person singular present indicative of ignorer
2. third-person singular present indicative of ignorer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ignorer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ignorer
5. second-person singular imperative of ignorer

Anagrams

• région

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Portuguese

Verb

ignore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of ignorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of ignorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of ignorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of ignorar

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iɡˈnore]

Verb

ignore

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of ignora
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of ignora

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Spanish

Verb

ignore

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of ignorar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of ignorar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of ignorar.