ignore

See also ignoré

English

Etymology

From French ignorer, from Latin ignorare (“to have no knowledge of, mistake, take no notice of, ignore”), from ignarus (“not knowing”), from in + gnarus (“knowing”), from **gnoscere, noscere; see know.

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: ĭgnô', IPA: /ɪɡˈnɔː/, X-SAMPA: /Ig"nO:/
• (US) enPR: ĭgnōr', IPA: /ɪɡˈnoʊɹ/, X-SAMPA: /Ig"noUr\/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

Verb

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

1. To deliberately pay no attention to.
2. (obsolete) Fail to notice.

Synonyms

• turn a blind eye

Antonyms

• watch

Derived terms

• ignorable

Related terms

• ignorance
• ignorant

Translations

to deliberately pay no attention to

• Afrikaans: ignoreer (af)
• Albanian: injoroj (sq)
• Arabic: تجاهل (ar) (tajāhala)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: ignorovat (cs)
• Danish: ignorere (da)
• Dutch: negeren (nl)
• Esperanto: ignori (eo)
• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: ‎ei välittää, ‎ei ottaa huomioon, sivuuttaa (fi)
• French: ‎ne pas rendre compte de
• German: ignorieren (de), missachten (de)
• Icelandic: hunsa (is)
• Ido: ignorar (io)
• Interlingua: ignorar (ia)
• Italian: ignorare (it)
• Japanese: 顧みない (ja) (かえりみない, kaeriminai), 無視する (ja) (mushi-suru), 目をつぶる (ja) (me-o tsuburu)

• Khmer: មិនធ្វើដឹងធ្វើឬ (km) (mɨn tvəə dəŋ tvəə rɨɨ), ធ្វើថ្លង់ធ្វើគ (km) (tvəə tlɑŋ tvəə kɔɔ)
• Korean: 무시하다 (ko) (musihada)
• Latin: ignoro (la)
• Luxembourgish: ignoréieren (lb)
• Norwegian: ignorere (no)
• Occitan: ignorar (oc)
• Persian: چشم‌پوشی کردن (fa) (čašm-puši kardan), نادیده گرفتن (fa) (nâdide gereftan)
• Polish: ignorować (pl)
• Russian: игнорировать (ru) (ignorírovat'), пренебрегать (ru) (prenebregát'), не принимать во внимание (ru) (ne prinimát' vo vnimánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: leig seachad (gd)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: игнорисати (sh) (ignorisati), игнорирати (sh) (ignorirati)

  Roman: ignorisati (sh), ignorirati (sh)

• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: ignorar (es)
• Swahili: puuza (sw)
• Swedish: ignorera (sv)
• Telugu: విస్మరించు (te) (vismariMcu)

External links

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

Anagrams

• 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 (infinitive ignorar)

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.