ignore

See also: ignoré

Contents

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.
   • 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.

2. To pretend to not notice someone or something.
3. (obsolete) Fail to notice.
4. (obsolete) Not to know.

Synonyms

• misheed
• neglect
• turn a blind eye
• unmind
• unheed

Antonyms

• notice
• recognize
• watch

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, pf (ihnaravácʹ)
• Bulgarian: игнорирам (bg) (ignoriram), пренебрегвам (bg) (prenebregvam)
• 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, jättää huomiotta, ei välittää, ei ottaa huomioon
• French: ignorer (fr), ne pas prêter attention (fr) à, ne pas tenir compte (fr) de
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: ignorieren (de), missachten (de)
• Greek: αγνοώ (el) (agnoó)
• 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)
• Latin: ignoro
• 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 (ignorisati), игнорирати (ignorirati)

  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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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.