IGNORE


Meaning of IGNORE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪgnɔ:(r) ]

( 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

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