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ignored

[ig-nawr, -nohr]

verb (used with object), -nored, -nor·ing.

to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.

Law. (of a grand jury) to reject (a bill of indictment), as on the grounds of insufficient evidence.

Origin:
1605–15; < Latin ignōrāre to not know, disregard, verbal derivative of ignārus ignorant, unaware (with -ō- perhaps from ignōtus unknown), equivalent to in- in-³ + gnārus knowing, acquainted (with); akin to (g)nōscere to know¹

Related forms

ig·nor·a·ble, adjective

ig·nor·er, noun

un·ig·nor·a·ble, adjective

un·ig·nor·a·b·ly, adverb

un·ig·nored, adjective

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un·ig·nor·ing, adjective

well-ig·nored, adjective

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Synonyms
1. overlook; slight, disregard, neglect.

Antonyms
1. notice, regard.

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Example Sentences

Fedoroff's attempt to rejuvenate the discourse on a vital issue that has been virtually ignored by policy.

The stuff that people used to watch or listen to largely because there was little else on is increasingly being ignored.

Other researchers studying birds' magnetic vision have ignored superoxides because of the compounds' toxicity.

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Fedoroff's attempt to rejuvenate the discourse on a vital issue that has been virtually ignored by policy.

The stuff that people used to watch or listen to largely because there was little else on is increasingly being ignored.

Other researchers studying birds' magnetic vision have ignored superoxides because of the compounds' toxicity.

Researchers had ignored such behavior because it seemed unimportant--rats being rats.

Medical companies ignored the needs of premature infants, inspiring a nurse to become an entrepreneur.

Cardoons are sadly ignored these days, except by a shrinking number of cooks who know how to deal with them.

In his early career, he ignored cats entirely, focusing instead on insects.

In doing so, board members ignored pleas from college history professors and other experts that the vote be delayed.

Fiscal rules to ensure budgetary responsibility are often ignored.

However, with their heritage ignored and their contributions denied they are all but invisible at the dawn of the new millennium.

The insula, an area of the brain largely ignored by researchers, may hold the key to breaking harmful addictions.

But the idea of a cultural schism ignored a countervailing fact:.

Before the remodel, the outdoor space in back was virtually ignored.

Unfortunately, the next writer ignored these undercurrents and instead recycled an old plot that was effectively closed.

Ranging from knee-jerk to excellent, they mostly ignored placement.

It is the only surface link between two countries that have traditionally ignored each other.

But newspaper accounts of his discovery were widely ignored.

Others are not naturally rude but get frustrated by being ignored and thus adopt the strategies that they see working for others.

Perhaps they too preserve some cells or other minute details that have been ignored.

Base remains mostly unknown to the public and largely ignored.

For one brief but glorious moment, he ignored his own philosophy:.

What the markets blithely ignored was the day's bad news.

Looking at how badly a sore was infested revealed how long an elderly person was ignored in a nursing home.

They saw the dot and number as one symbol but counted on the dots and ignored the universal symbol.

Usually, it is simply ignored or stated to be a curious unsolvable.

Or, he totally ignored you and gave everyone in his company permission to do that, too.

Holm ignored his former colleagues when he sent his opinions directly to a large external readership:.

The next day he spoke of speeding up reforms, but ignored calls for.

Sharks were once ignored by many commercial fishermen.

The tremendous contributions his findings made to the radio maping of the universe should not have been ignored.

Perhaps you can tell my why it is totally ignored by your page and all the others when it is so widely viewed.

Our children's obsession with all things piratical is something that cannot be ignored.

Laghari said this is not the first time the commission's budgetary needs have been ignored.

He ignored distinctions of race or caste, and was happy to eat rice from an aluminium plate in the house of an untouchable.

Painters ignored people or scenes in landscape art, and made the land itself the subject of paintings.

So in your research you must have come across this fact, and ignored it.

The performances are timed in lock-step fashion-not one minute is wasted or ignored.

These variations were ignored in the early days of genetics, but have recently been recognized as important:.

In my first chapter, the problem was how to convey why some frequently ignored texts are interesting.

And he has ignored big changes in public opinion about climate change.

If they saw the irony-that their actions would only prolong the revenge cycle that had claimed their friend-they ignored it.

No outburst by a disaffected human should be ignored.

And they may think, therefore, that this study can be ignored.

He continued to carry on, mostly ignored by the protesters.

If you tried this in my field, you'd be at best ignored.

Nominal legal provisions calling for minimum wages and guaranteed rest days are routinely ignored.

What is being ignored is the silent ones who aren't expressing themselves.

Also if a stop code is in the wrong place often that part of the reading is ignored.

He would have been ignored at any other time in history.

In a second test, the driver ignored the crash warning.

Moreover, when he told a professor about it, he was ignored.

Signals from above the telescope can be identified and ignored.

The tribes ignored national borders, adhering to their own territorial boundaries defined by kinship and tradition.

Up to now on paper they've totally ignored this credit system".

Roll, especially, had been largely ignored or unimagined by their predecessors.

But they're often weirdly ignored in national conversations about college quality.

To a comical degree, that lesson is being ignored by the.

We need more programs that inform the public about animal abuse, in all forms, that is ignored or unknown.

There is obvious evidence that the evolutionary process exhibits hierarchical order, that is somehow ignored.

All it means is that genetics reveals things about the cultural past that people sometimes have forgotten or ignored.

I've seen this thread bouncing around for a while, and usually ignored it.

The firm ignored repeated requests to mend its ways.

Jane ignored that part of the mandate and studied chimps for their own sake, their own interest, their own value.

Sea temp rise is being ignored and reason not discussed so far.

What is all to often ignored is it was one tribe of blacks who would help the white slave traders trap another tribe of blacks.

As it was the few economists who warned of impending turmoil were marginalized and ignored by their colleagues.

These three factors-the second two being largely ignored in climate models up to this.

Unfortunately where money is involved all moral consideration is completely ignored.

The message was apparently ignored by voters, whatever their sleeping habits.

The economic modelling data was entirely ignored when it showed that devastation fast approaching.

Some if/then statements--such as, if the scrolls are ignored then the site becomes secular--are indeed iffy.

It involves allegations that officials ignored kiln-owners' use of abducted boys to perform dangerous work.

They have both done so much for us that gets constantly ignored every time someone wants to duck personal responsibility.

There is something really too coincidental to be ignored here:.

The army has ignored calls to account for its killing of unarmed protesters and bystanders.

It also ignored the function of human emotions: to cause responses or adaptations to stimulus.

She reported her concerns internally, and was ignored.

After the regime ignored the clergy's demands for an apology, monks took to the streets in several main cities.

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Word Origin & History

ignore

1611, "not to know, to be ignorant of," from Fr. ignorer, from L. ignorare "not to know, disregard," from ignarus "not knowing, unaware" (see ignorant). Sense of "pay no attention to" first recorded 1801 and not common until c.1850.

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