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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

IGNO'RE, v.t. To be ignorant. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting" [syn: ignore, disregard, snub, cut]
2: bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" [syn: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore]
3: fail to notice [ant: mark, note, notice]
4: give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors" [syn: neglect, ignore, disregard]
5: be ignorant of or in the dark about [ant: cognise, cognize, know]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (ignored; ignoring) Etymology: obsolete ignore to be ignorant of, from French ignorer, from Latin ignorare, from ignarus ignorant, unknown, from in- + gnoscere, noscere to know — more at know Date: 1801 1. to refuse to take notice of 2. to reject (a bill of indictment) as ungrounded Synonyms: see neglect • ignorable adjective • ignorer noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. 1 refuse to take notice of or accept. 2 intentionally disregard. Derivatives: ignorer n. Etymology: F ignorer or L ignorare not know, ignore (as IN-(1), gno- know)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.] 1. 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. 2. (Law) To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus. 3. 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(ignores, ignoring, ignored) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. If you ignore someone or something, you pay no attention to them. She said her husband ignored her... VERB: V n 2. If you say that an argument or theory ignores an important aspect of a situation, you are criticizing it because it fails to consider that aspect or to take it into account. Such arguments ignore the question of where ultimate responsibility lay. = overlook VERB: V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Regard as unknown, shut one's eyes to, leave out of view, not recognize, not take into account, disregard, neglect, utterly overlook. 2. (Law.) Reject, set aside.

Moby Thesaurus

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