Ignore

Meaning

Ignore means to deliberately pay no attention to someone or something, or to refuse to consider something.

Pronunciation

/ɪɡˈnɔːr/

Word Forms

• Base form: ignore
• Past tense: ignored
• Past participle: ignored
• Present participle: ignoring
• Noun: ignorance
• Adjective: ignorant

Synonyms

Antonyms

Common Collocations

• ignore someone — to deliberately pay no attention to someone.
• ignore a warning — to refuse to pay attention to a warning.
• ignore a problem — to deliberately avoid dealing with a problem.
• ignore advice — to choose not to follow or consider advice.
• ignore the fact — to refuse to acknowledge something that is true.
• completely ignore — to pay absolutely no attention to something or someone.

Example Sentences

• She decided to ignore his message.
• You should never ignore a serious warning.
• He tried to ignore the pain and continue working.
• They ignored the advice of their friends.
• It is impossible to ignore the problem any longer.

Literary Example

Example:

“His strategy, as far as I could tell, was to ignore her until she went away.”

— Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

Here, ignore means to deliberately pay no attention to someone. The narrator describes a strategy in which a person refuses to acknowledge another person's presence in the hope that she will eventually leave.

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