Crossword clues for ignore
ignore
- Disregard poor region
- Take no notice of
- Take no notice of Italian gentleman losing head
- Pass over
- Set aside
- Give the cold shoulder
- Refuse to acknowledge
- Brush off
- Deliberately not notice
- Turn one's back on
- Wink at
- Refuse to recognize
- Pretend not to see
- Pretend not to notice
- Pay no mind
- Pay no attention
- Pay no heed
- Let go by
- Intentionally overlook
- Not consider
- Let slide
- Don't listen to
- What you have to do to paparazzi
- What pompous stars do to fans
- Say nothing to
- Region (anag)
- Refrain from noticing
- Put out of one's mind
- Pretend not to hear
- Give a cold shoulder to
- Don't think about
- Don't acknowledge
- Deliberately snub
- Deliberately overlook
- Delete, as a message
- Decline to answer
- Snub, in a way
- Pay no heed to
- Bypass
- Pay no attention to
- Tune out
- Give the cold shoulder to
- Overlook
- Shrug off
- Slight, in a way
- Brush aside
- Skip
- Turn a deaf ear to
- Not pick up
- Cold-shoulder
- Not even consider
- Pay no mind to
- Turn a blind eye to
- Neglect
- Disregard
- Give the go-by
- Snub or neglect
- Cut use of heroin, finally going for Hitsville's No 1
- Cut groin badly on end of tightrope
- Slight Roman gent scratching head
- Slight Italian guy going topless
- Shun Italian man denied introduction
- Fellow left foreign exchange discount
- Fail to register anger about Government refusal
- Region redeveloped to create bypass
- Pay no attention to Italian chap down south
- Pay no attention to region on travels
- Pass by one rig at sea
- Intentionally disregard
- I travel across north on bypass
- Disregard sign with no start, or end of message
- Disregard region's suffering
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ignore
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
disobey/ignore an order
▪ Anyone who disobeys these orders will be severely punished.
ignore a reality
▪ They are ignoring the reality of Arab politics.
ignore a remark
▪ He ignored my remark and carried on working.
ignore a request
▪ They ignored repeated requests to leave the property.
ignore a warning
▪ He had ignored their warning to stay in the car.
ignore sb’s wishes
▪ It is important not to ignore the wishes of the patient.
ignore/disregard sb’s advice (=not do what someone tells you)
▪ The accident happened because she ignored their advice.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
completely
▪ Local authorities had almost completely ignored the Norwood report of 1943.
▪ Serious movies with smaller budgets and smaller potential returns were almost completely ignored.
▪ Only a minority of pupils take part in high quality experimental science-which is often completely ignored until they are 14.
▪ Completely ignoring the fact you hit only flesh, which it looks like it to me.
▪ But that does not mean that those Old Testament rituals should now be completely ignored.
▪ In fact, this estimate completely ignores the value of all the other ingredients of asteroids besides iron.
▪ That is not to say the report has been ignored completely.
▪ Some of the man-apes it ignored completely, as if it was concentrating on the most promising subjects.
largely
▪ She would rage at the boys; they largely ignored her.
▪ Forbes was largely ignored until he rose in the polls.
▪ The debate on the role of the state has largely ignored the fact that state means more than government.
▪ In our view the benefits of local economic development generally have been exaggerated while the costs have been largely ignored.
▪ Most of these effects are simply curiosities for the network engineer and are largely ignored by the majority of designers.
▪ But until recently the changes were largely ignored.
▪ The economic literature largely ignores the fact that the public sector has devised its own alternative modes of efficiency incentive.
▪ The great scholars also are largely ignored for their craft skills and precise goals in scholarship.
often
▪ Unfortunately, just as the emotional needs of mentally disordered people are often ignored, so too are their spiritual needs.
▪ In regard to the use of field interviewers, the social and psychological aspects of studies are all too often ignored.
▪ We often ignore intuition, when it's possible that intuitive responses are our past experiences lodged in our unconscious minds.
▪ Yet this limitation is very often ignored sometimes deliberately, sometimes out of sheer ignorance in muddling speech and writing.
▪ This may seem obvious advice, but it is often ignored.
▪ Snoring, or other sounds that occur with regularity, are often ignored by sleepers.
▪ In this way, he identifies costs which anti-insider dealers have often ignored.
▪ We look in the door and realize that, unless they are brought to our attention, we often ignore our surroundings.
simply
▪ These demands were simply ignored by the municipal government.
▪ Lettie purposely lingered behind Patrice, fighting off her natural inclination to simply ignore the woman and brush past her.
▪ I sulk, I ask him why, but he simply ignores me.
▪ As usually happens with environmental issues, reality was simply ignored or suspended.
▪ He had already offered his resignation, twice, and Mr Malik had simply ignored it.
▪ They explicitly denied any independent role for rational women and simply ignored the whole process of reproduction.
▪ Science simply ignored the fact that livestock are creatures with a capacity to suffer.
▪ But for most, in a community that is studiously disinterested in celebrity, Simpson is simply ignored.
totally
▪ The document has almost totally ignored motorcycling.
▪ A better approach is to continue to be friendly and businesslike, while totally ignoring their petty comments.
▪ The youngsters learn that there is nothing to fear and, after a time, they also totally ignore the traffic noise.
▪ We were practically shocked our results were totally ignored.
▪ Otherwise we just elect a few representatives who can totally ignore our wishes for several years after we have counted the votes.
▪ They would rave for twenty minutes about the mouse, and totally ignore the significance of bit-mapping.
▪ She was, in short, too bloody much, and not only that, she was totally ignoring me.
▪ The neuron may totally ignore regions of visual space lacking boundaries.
virtually
▪ Horizontal influences have been virtually ignored in Soviet and Western historiography alike.
▪ But when he visits their classrooms, they virtually ignore his presence.
▪ In contrast, non-communicable diseases have been virtually ignored by local health departments.
▪ Once, this was difficult to cross; then, railways spanned it; now, air travel virtually ignores it.
▪ General elections have become more presidential and the mass media virtually ignore the secondary party leaders.
▪ Meanwhile, the cyber gods controlling the random selection virtually ignored some large districts in other areas of the state.
▪ Batch processes and multipurpose plants are virtually ignored.
▪ After months of virtually ignoring the programs, and years of well-publicized cutbacks, airlines and hotels are suddenly getting generous.
■ NOUN
advice
▪ It was Graham herself, ignoring strong advice from Post lawyers, who made the call.
▪ The fee was 25,000 - and Collins ignored the advice of a friend when he signed.
▪ If you routinely ignore this bit of advice, like most travelers, take a minute now and think about it.
▪ It's believed they were shot after ignoring advice to turn back.
▪ I've tried everything from ignoring them to offering advice and I don't know what to do anymore.
▪ I do so hope he ignores my advice.
▪ The Thing could be deliberately infuriating at times, but it didn't pay to ignore its advice.
evidence
▪ Conservative leader Tony Richmond said the study by chief executive Clive Owen had ignored crucial evidence.
▪ In order to keep family peace, Clemens chose to ignore early evidence that Webster was a swindler.
▪ To deny the importance of the family as a source of care would be to ignore the accumulated evidence of several decades.
▪ In our view, however, the cautious approach is not to ignore the epidemiological evidence of declining semen quality.
▪ Why does the Prime Minister ignore all that evidence?
▪ Complexities within the Devonian have similarly been ignored for lack of evidence.
▪ But to ignore the evidence of differences in performance between gender or ethnic groups can lead to unjust treatment of individuals.
fact
▪ We can not ignore the fact that long-held attitudes were in the process of change.
▪ The debate on the role of the state has largely ignored the fact that state means more than government.
▪ The economic literature largely ignores the fact that the public sector has devised its own alternative modes of efficiency incentive.
▪ She was in trousers as usual, ignoring the fact that they might well be invited to dinner with the count.
▪ This approach ignores the fact that the taxpayer first had to acquire the right to grant sub-licenses.
issue
▪ The reason is not that he ignored domestic issues.
▪ Even more than the theories discussed before, utilitarianism ignores the problematic issue of the discourse's scientific object, the subject.
▪ Women should not go into hiding again and ignore this issue.
▪ In yet another report, Lord Hunt of Tamworth ignored the vital issue of technical standards for a future cabling system.
▪ Labour and the Alliance seemed to ignore the issue.
▪ Dozens of people had explained the need for a real opposition, but the commission simply ignored the issue.
need
▪ In our concern that evangelism should happen spontaneously we can not ignore the need for planning and structure.
▪ President Kim took the wrong course in favor of big business, ignoring the needs of the majority of the people.
▪ The Government perhaps ignore the need for safety, but many women take it very seriously.
▪ Not only did the new managers feel they neglected their family lives, they ignored their need for leisure and relaxation.
▪ Teams are insufficiently concerned with their own social needs, i.e. they ignore their own need for development and social maturing.
▪ To date, rural planners have virtually ignored the need for cooking energy.
▪ At the same time companies are being advised to ignore the needs of those who are well into retirement.
problem
▪ Most committees ignore touchy problems until they go away of their own accord.
▪ A three-dollar conversion would have corrected the design defect, but the corporation chose to ignore the problem.
▪ We do not have the choice to ignore the organisational problems that these self-sealing loops are creating.
▪ Pluralists ignore the problem of group formation.
▪ Were we to say nothing about it, or to ignore the problem that exists and the unrest in the black community?
▪ Others will ignore the problem and let the children sort it out themselves.
▪ To do so, however, would be to ignore the awkward problem of adequate representation for minority interests.
protest
▪ Angry villagers claim Labour-controlled Wrekin council has ignored their protests by backing the scheme.
▪ He bullied the school board which, in theory, employed him, and he chose to ignore the black protest.
question
▪ Feel free to ignore those questions that don't apply to you.
▪ Brazenly, Rumsfeld ignored the question, but it was an eloquent omission.
▪ But Svidrigailov ignores the question and starts talking about politics.
▪ When I ask if anything is wrong, she ignores my question.
▪ At first he thought she was going to ignore his question.
▪ Business Week is not alone in ignoring such questions.
▪ First, if the foregoing appears to ignore questions of democracy within the enterprise that is only because of the order of exposition.
warning
▪ But Berisha, tied up in an election year and basking in Western political support, ignored the warnings.
▪ A gutsy and popular player, Howe ignored medical warnings despite previous heart tremors.
▪ She ignored the outside warnings about Adrienne from the older ones who frequented the places where she sang.
▪ I might ignore all the warnings and even try to convince other people that lung cancer does not really exist.
▪ Above all why had he, Mungo, ignored the warning and involved himself?
▪ And for months they have ignored repeated U.S. warnings about the dangers of this new, aggressive policy.
▪ Those who ignore the warnings do so at their peril, however.
■ VERB
afford
▪ Yet at the same time he can not afford to ignore hardline opinion at home.
▪ It can not afford to ignore the elements of the complex.
▪ Only those who can afford to ignore these constraints feel capable of exercising a choice to retain a more traditional agricultural landscape.
▪ No left-leaning government can afford to ignore the centre-right.
▪ The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore.
▪ No later writer could afford to ignore so well-placed a source.
▪ He says none of the parties can afford to ignore the fact that thousands of people die of starvation each week.
▪ Nevertheless few expatriates can afford just to ignore this Budget.
choose
▪ They jointly chose to ignore their employer's orders and statutory safety regulations, by testing detonators without taking shelter.
▪ In order to keep family peace, Clemens chose to ignore early evidence that Webster was a swindler.
▪ Dame Ermengilde, her nose in the air, chose to ignore them.
▪ It is not that he saw and chose to ignore formal distinctions based on function or hierarchical position.
▪ He had chosen to ignore the fact that she took out her frustrations on Carla.
▪ He bullied the school board which, in theory, employed him, and he chose to ignore the black protest.
▪ Those companies who choose to ignore the power of a desk-top micro will do so at their peril.
▪ I shall refrain from doing so, though even the dust jacket has chosen to ignore that discretion.
continue
▪ Cross and continue up field, ignoring gate on right and bear slightly left to gate leading uphill to farm.
▪ Roberto Madrazo does not resign and if Pemex continues to ignore more than 63, 000 damage claims.
▪ Previous answers assume that evolution will continue unchanged they ignore developments such as genetic engineering.
▪ When I continued to ignore him, he got out of the car and opened the back door.
▪ Offstage she was scrupulously polite to him, an exercise that was totally wasted as he continued to ignore her.
▪ Dario continued to ignore me as he moved toward the bed slowly, I thought like some one in a trance.
▪ Unfortunately, they also continue to be ignored by those who produce official reports and government guidelines.
▪ The stock market continues to ignore everything.
decide
▪ The Archbishop's implied command that he leave the matter alone he decided to ignore.
▪ I decided to ignore my hair and clean my other dress.
▪ If Anna wanted to be sullen, Liz decided she was best ignored.
▪ For some reason my first thought is that it is Glendenning, who has decided to ignore the dark-skinned judge and snoop.
▪ Then I finally realised you could see it, but you'd decided simply to ignore it.
▪ I decided to try to ignore it as I did not want anything to distract me from my purpose.
tend
▪ At each stage goals shift in importance and organizations tend to ignore this fact.
▪ The old laws were so irrelevant to post-Soviet life that even the police tended to ignore them.
▪ Problems that can not be resolved by reasoned debate have tended to be ignored in the hope that they will go away.
▪ Some patients with right-brain strokes tend to ignore anything on the left side of their visual world.
▪ Reich tended to ignore the interconnection, but it was an important one for Freud's sociology.
▪ It's just that now I tend to ignore it.
▪ Grace, however, tended to ignore Luke when he came to stay, doing her duty without love or warmth.
▪ More confident horses tend to ignore the other horses in such situations - unless they are stallions.
try
▪ Slumping back on the pillow, she tried to ignore it.
▪ In fact, they tried to ignore their ethnicity altogether.
▪ The only way was to push straight ahead and try to ignore them.
▪ Me, trying to ignore it all while I section a grapefruit for the teen-ager.
▪ Here again the technique is to try to ignore the microphone and talk directly to the interviewer.
▪ She considered, trying to ignore the jangling hangers, with their cold, quick touch.
▪ I tried to ignore the now more muted sounds of their inmates, keeping my eyes firmly on the floor.
▪ I've tried everything from ignoring them to offering advice and I don't know what to do anymore.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Ignoring my warnings, he dived straight into the shallow water.
▪ Don't ignore me when I'm talking to you!
▪ It was very stupid of you to ignore your mother's advice.
▪ Just ignore him and he'll stop pestering you.
▪ My father's always telling me what to do, but I usually just ignore him.
▪ Now that she had lost all her wealth, she was ignored by former friends.
▪ She ignored my question and continued her story.
▪ Someone made a rude noise, which the teacher decided to ignore.
▪ The school board has continually ignored the complaints of parents.
▪ The waiter totally ignored Glen and served a girl who had come up beside him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the tree burned, it sighed at what happiness it had ignored, and each sigh made a loud popping noise.
▪ But an alternative explanation had also come to him which he knew he should not ignore.
▪ Fox is a greedy billionaire who ignores his daughter and ends up turning her into gold.
▪ Habermas rejects this analysis because the level of communicative action can have an impact on the process of modernization that Marcuse ignored.
▪ He ignored Cranston's excited pleas to hurry and went over to the window, unrolling them carefully.
▪ It is equally wrong, however, to think it is possible to ignore the practical dimensions of life.
▪ Olivia was sitting with a group of social admin people, who were all ignoring her.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ignore
Ignore \Ig*nore"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ignored; p. pr. & vb. n. Ignoring.] [L. ignorare; pref. in- not + the root of gnarus knowing, noscere to become acquainted with. See Know, and cf. Narrate.]
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To be ignorant of or not acquainted with. [Archaic]
Philosophy would solidly be established, if men would more carefully distinguish those things that they know from those that they ignore.
--Boyle. (Law) To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for lack of evidence. See Ignoramus.
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Hence: To refuse to take notice of; to shut the eyes to; not to recognize; to disregard willfully and causelessly; as, to ignore certain facts; to ignore the presence of an objectionable person.
Ignoring Italy under our feet, And seeing things before, behind.
--Mrs. Browning.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ignore
1610s, "not to know, to be ignorant of," from French ignorer "be unaware of," from Latin ignorare "not to know, disregard" (see ignorant). Sense of "pay no attention to" first recorded 1801 (Barnhart says "probably a dictionary word"), and not common until c.1850. Related: Ignored; ignoring.
Wiktionary
ignore
vb. To deliberately pay no attention to.
WordNet
ignore
v. refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting" [syn: disregard, snub, cut]
bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" [syn: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside]
fail to notice [ant: notice]
give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors" [syn: neglect, disregard]
be ignorant of or in the dark about [ant: know]
Usage examples of "ignore".
She went into the ablutions area and took a shower, trying to ignore the thing, which continued to watch her, or she presumed it was watching her, through its unblinking golden eye-slit.
She got out of bed, studiously ignoring the robot, and went into the ablutions unit.
Because to do so would have been to admit acausal relationships in the Balkans, influences removed from logic which would have been highly confusing in their disorderly ramifications, and had therefore always been thoughtfully ignored as nonexistent.
She tried to ignore the dizzying perspective plucking at her peripheral vision over the low sides of the pod and concentrated instead on the stress and acceleration vectors graphically represented on her screen.
I suggested that people ignore the Panadol ads because they could buy store-brand acetaminophen for half as much.
Nay, he decided, forcing himself to ignore the pulsing hardness between his thighs and the churning of his blood which ached for the satisfaction that only her body could provide.
Dorrin drives the adz into the largest chunk of charcoal, ignoring the light footsteps on the porch behind him.
Clodius Afer seemed to ignore the words, or at least their strangeness.
The singular jealousy of the Venetians for the solidarity of their government, with their no less singular jealousy of individual aggrandizement, together with the rare perception of mental characteristics that was fostered by the daily culture of the councils in which every noble took his part, led them constantly to ignore their selfish hopes in order to choose the right man for the place.
At last he had given his grievance an airing, and compared with his previous treatment rude letters, curt telephone calls, and ignored requests for information smooth evasions were a decided improvement.
Ignoring the badinage, Ake walked over to where the rubies lay on the floor, kneeled down, and began selecting likely prospects.
The landlord darkened noticeably at this, and Alec gave Seregil a startled glance, which he pointedly ignored.
Klia flopped down unceremoniously in front of Seregil but ignored him completely, addressing Alec as if they were old friends.
Retreating meekly to his corner, Alec was quickly ignored dgity all but plain Stamie, who seemed to be the only friendly inhabitant of the place.
The amah ignored the order and whipped the top covers aside to expose the sheet.