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/

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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

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: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: ігнарава́ць impf or pf (ihnaravácʹ)
• Bulgarian: игнорирам (bg) (ignoriram), пренебрегвам (bg) (prenebregvam)
• Catalan: ignorar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 忽視 (zh), 忽视 (zh) (hūshì), 忽略 (zh) (hūlüè), 不理 (zh) (bù lǐ), 不問 (zh), 不问 (zh) (bù wèn)

• Czech: ignorovat (cs)
• 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, nonsaleerata, ignoroida, olla välittämättä, ei välittää
• 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) (mushi suru), 忽略する (ja) (kotsuryaku suru), 知らん顔する (shirankao suru)

• Khmer: មិនធ្វើដឹងធ្វើឬ (mɨn tvəə dəŋ tvəə rɨɨ), ធ្វើថ្លង់ធ្វើគ (tvəə tlɑŋ tvəə kɔɔ)
• Korean: 무시하다 (ko) (musihada) (無視-)
• Latin: ignōrō
• Luxembourgish: ignoréieren
• Macedonian: игнорира (ignorira)
• Maori: pī, whakangongo, whakatuturi, whakaririka (provocation)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: ignorere, overse
• Occitan: ignorar (oc)
• Persian: چشم‌پوشی کردن‎ (čašm-puši kardan), نادیده گرفتن‎ (fa) (nâdide gereftan)
• Polish: ignorować (pl)
• Portuguese: ignorar (pt)
• Russian: игнори́ровать (ru) (ignorírovatʹ), пренебрега́ть (ru) (prenebregátʹ), не принима́ть во внима́ние (ne prinimátʹ vo vnimánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: leig seachad
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: игнорисати, игнорирати

  Roman: ignorisati, ignorirati (sh)

• Slovak: ignorovať
• Spanish: ignorar (es), desoír (es)
• Swahili: puuza (sw)
• Swedish: ignorera (sv)
• Tagalog: balewalain
• Telugu: విస్మరించు (vismariñcu)
• Thai: เมิน (th) (məən)
• 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, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

Anagrams

• Regino, eringo, ingoer, region

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French

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, ela, also used with tu and você^?) 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.