ignore

See also: ignoré

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-der.

Latin īgnōrōlbor.

French ignorer

English ignore

From French ignorer, from Latin ignōrō (“to have no knowledge of, mistake, take no notice of, ignore”), from ignārus (“not knowing”), from in- (“not”) + gnārus (“knowing”), from gnōscō, nōscō; see know.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈnɔː/
• (Standard Southern British, Australia) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈnoː/
• (General American, Canada) enPR: ĭgnôrʹ, IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈnoɹ/

  • Audio (US):

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• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əɡˈnoː/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈnoɾ/
  • (Manchester) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈnoː/
  • (Eastern New England) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈnoə/
  • (19th century Received Pronunciation, obsolete) IPA^(key): /ɪɡˈnɔə/
• Hyphenation: ig‧nore
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

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.

   Synonyms: disregard, neglect; see also Thesaurus:ignore

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

   A problem ignored is a problem doubled.

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

     Ignore these four words.

   • 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.

   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 53:

     The late Professor Pat White was an outspoken critic. In his 1986 book Forgotten Railways, he dismissed as smoke and mirrors the oft-used argument that 33% of rail routes carried only 1% of the traffic, as it ignores the fact that a third of the national road network also only carried 2% of cars and lorries. But unlike rail, road got away with it because no mention was made of how much it cost the taxpayer to keep them usable.

2. To pretend to not notice someone or something.

   Synonyms: overlook, turn a blind eye to, wink at, (obsolete) connive

   Antonyms: notice, observe

3. (obsolete) Fail to notice.

   Synonyms: overlook; see also Thesaurus:fail to notice

4. (obsolete) Not to know.

   Synonym: be ignorant of

   Antonym: know

Conjugation

Conjugation of ignore

infinitive	(to) ignore
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	ignore	ignored
2nd-person singular	ignore, ignorest†	ignored, ignoredst†
3rd-person singular	ignores, ignoreth†	ignored
plural	ignore
subjunctive	ignore	ignored
imperative	ignore	—
participles	ignoring	ignored

^† Archaic or obsolete.

Derived terms

• iggy
• ignorability
• ignorable
• ignoration
• ignore all previous instructions
• ignore all rules
• ignoree
• ignore list
• ignorement
• ignorome
• ignorosphere
• ignortion
• reignore
• unignore

Related terms

• ignorance
• ignoral
• ignorant

Translations

to deliberately pay no attention to

• Afrikaans: ignoreer (af)
• Albanian: injoroj
• Arabic: تَجَاهَلَ (tajāhala), طَنَّش (ṭannaš)

  Gulf Arabic: طنش (ṭannaš)

  South Levantine Arabic: طنش (ṭannaš)

• Armenian: անտեսել (hy) (antesel), նշկահել (hy) (nškahel)
• Assamese: অগ্ৰাহ্য কৰা (ograhyo kora), অগ্ৰাহ্য কৰ (ograhyo kor)
• Azerbaijani: saymamaq
• Basque: ez jakin
• Belarusian: ігнарава́ць impf or pf (ihnaravácʹ)
• Bulgarian: игнори́рам (bg) impf or pf (ignoríram), пренебре́гвам (bg) impf (prenebrégvam), пренебре́гна pf (prenebrégna)
• Carpathian Rusyn: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: ignorar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 無視 / 无视 (zh) (wúshì), 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), malatenti
• Estonian: ignoreerida
• Faroese: ikki at merkja
• Finnish: sivuuttaa (fi), jättää huomiotta, ei ottaa huomioon, olla huomaamatta, ohittaa (fi), olla välittämättä, ei välittää, nonsaleerata, ignoorata (fi), 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)
• Hindi: उपेक्षा (hi) f (upekṣā), उपेक्षा करना (upekṣā karnā), अवहेलना करना (avhelnā karnā), ध्यान न देना (dhyān na denā)
• Hungarian: nem vesz tudomást róla
• Icelandic: hunsa
• Ido: ignorar (io)
• Indonesian: mengabaikan (id)
• 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)
• Kashubian: please add this translation if you can
• Khmer: មិនធ្វើដឹងធ្វើឬ (mɨn tvəə dəŋ tvəə rɨɨ), ធ្វើថ្លង់ធ្វើគ (tvəə tlɑŋ tvəə kɔɔ)
• Korean: 무시하다 (ko) (musihada)
• Latin: praetereō, neglegō, ignōrō
• Latvian: ignorēt
• Lithuanian: ignoruoti (lt)
• Luxembourgish: ignoréieren
• Macedonian: игнори́ра impf or pf (ignoríra)
• Maltese: jinjora
• Māori: pī, whakangongo, whakatuturi, whakaririka (provocation)
• Mongolian: үл тоомсорлох (ül toomsorlox)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ignorere, overse

• Occitan: ignorar (oc)
• Pannonian Rusyn: иґноровац impf (ignorovac)
• Persian: چشم‌پوشی کردن (čašm-puši kardan), نادیده گرفتن (fa) (nâdide gereftan)
• Polish: ignorować (pl) impf, zignorować (pl) pf
• Portuguese: ignorar (pt)
• Romanian: ignora (ro)
• 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

  Latin: ignorísati impf or pf, ignorírati (sh) impf or pf

• Slovak: ignorovať impf
• Slovene: ignorirati impf
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: please add this translation if you can

  Upper Sorbian: ignorować (hsb) impf, zignorować pf

• Spanish: ignorar (es), desoír (es), ningunear (es), desatencionar (rare, Nicaragua)
• Swahili: puuza (sw)
• Swedish: ignorera (sv)
• Tagalog: balewalain
• Tamil: புறக்கணிக்கவும் (puṟakkaṇikkavum)
• Telugu: విస్మరించు (vismariñcu)
• Thai: เมิน (th) (məən)
• Tsonga: honisa
• Turkish: görmezden gelmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: ігнорува́ти impf (ihnoruváty), проігнорува́ти pf (proihnoruváty), зігнорува́ти pf (zihnoruváty) (rare), не́хтувати impf (néxtuvaty), зне́хтувати pf (znéxtuvaty)
• Urdu: نطر انداز کرنا
• Uzbek: e‘tibor bermaslik
• Vietnamese: lơ (vi), lờ (vi), bơ (vi)
• Welsh: anwybyddu (cy)
• Xhosa: ungahoyi
• Yiddish: איגנאָרירן (ignorirm)
• Zulu: nganaki

Further reading

• “ignore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “ignore”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Regino, eringo, ingoer, region

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /i.ɲɔʁ/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Verb

ignore

1. inflection of ignorer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• région

Galician

Verb

ignore

1. inflection of ignorar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

ignore

1. inflection of ignorar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iɡˈno.re]

Verb

ignore

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

Spanish

Verb

ignore

1. inflection of ignorar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative