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US
/ˌɪɡˈnɔɹ/
]
[ UK /ɪɡnˈɔː/ ]
[ UK /ɪɡnˈɔː/ ]
VERB
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bar from attention or consideration
She dismissed his advances - fail to notice
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give little or no attention to
Disregard the errors - be ignorant of or in the dark about
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refuse to acknowledge
She cut him dead at the meeting
How To Use ignore In A Sentence
- The affinities between music and poetry have been familiar since antiquity, though they are largely ignored in the current intellectual climate.
- Largely ignored by those same trekkers just a couple of hundred miles away on the equator lies Mount Kenya, Africa's second highest peak and arguably its most beautiful. Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya -- Is This the Most Beautiful Mountain in Africa?
- The evening is an absorbing night out and one not to be lightly ignored.
- For one thing, we will have to ignore a good deal of commentary presented by nameless characters, by representative characters, and by lay figures who appear for one important speech and are never seen again.
- His colleagues listened politely to his harangue but ignored him. THE GUARDSMEN
- The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
- The record was, I think, called Peace, a heart-warming exhortation for world leaders to avoid war – although many of them, unbelievably, have completely ignored the doughty cloggers' message in the intervening years. Which footballers have produced their own food and drink?
- What is the point of using TV replays when you blatantly ignore what they show you? The Sun
- It shines a powerful spotlight on an issue we ignore to our cost. Times, Sunday Times
- Sharon ignored them, and they wandered off to ask some other people if they had put on tephillin today. Archive 2007-01-01