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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored advice" [syn: ignored, neglected, unheeded]

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.

Moby Thesaurus

abandoned, contemned, declined, declined with thanks, denied, deserted, despised, disapproved, discarded, discounted, disdained, dismissed, disowned, disregarded, excepted, excluded, forgotten, forsworn, half-done, ill-requited, ill-rewarded, laid aside, left undone, missed, neglected, not considered, omitted, overlooked, passed by, passed over, passed up, pigeonholed, put aside, rebuffed, refused, rejected, renounced, repudiated, repulsed, scouted, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, slighted, spurned, unacknowledged, unasked, unattended to, uncared-for, unchaperoned, unconsidered, uncredited, undone, unfairly neglected, unrecognized, unregarded, unrequited, unrewarded, unsolicited, untended, unthanked, unwatched