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Synonyms for ignore
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Wiktionary3.0 / 5 votes

  1. ignoreverb

    Synonyms:
    turn a blind eye

    Antonyms:
    watch

  2. ignoreverb

    To deliberately pay no attention to.

    Synonyms:
    turn a blind eye

    Antonyms:
    watch

  3. ignoreverb

    Fail to notice.

    Synonyms:
    turn a blind eye

    Antonyms:
    watch

English Synonyms and Antonyms2.7 / 3 votes

  1. ignoreverb

    Synonyms:
    avoid, cut, elude, overlook, pass, pass by, shun

    Antonyms:
    address, address, apostrophize, appeal, approach, cost, court, greet, hail, salute, speak to, woo

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ignore

    Synonyms:
    disown, repudiate, overlook

    Antonyms:
    own, notice, mark, visit, recognize

Princeton's WordNet3.8 / 8 votes

  1. ignore, disregard, snub, cutverb

    refuse to acknowledge

    "She cut him dead at the meeting"

    Synonyms:
    foreshorten, veer, bring down, snub, turn off, burn, rationalize, hack, dismiss, write out, prune, thin, rebuff, cut, repel, slue, trim back, trim, swerve, shorten, edit out, brush off, edit, thin out, cut down, skip, neglect, abridge, reduce, rationalise, discount, cut off, push aside, curve, switch off, sheer, make out, contract, trim down, slew, tailor, turn out, dilute, brush aside, disregard, issue, cut back, abbreviate, trend, geld

    Antonyms:
    know, note, cognise, cognize, mark, notice

  2. dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignoreverb

    bar from attention or consideration

    "She dismissed his advances"

    Synonyms:
    neglect, send away, snub, throw out, give the sack, usher out, disregard, brush aside, sack, drop, discount, send packing, cut, force out, dismiss, displace, can, push aside, brush off, give notice, terminate, dissolve, give the axe, fire, push away

    Antonyms:
    notice, know, note, cognise, cognize, mark

  3. ignoreverb

    fail to notice

    Synonyms:
    brush aside, snub, brush off, neglect, push aside, disregard, dismiss, cut, discount

    Antonyms:
    note, cognize, mark, cognise, know, notice

  4. neglect, ignore, disregardverb

    give little or no attention to

    "Disregard the errors"

    Synonyms:
    miss, omit, brush aside, overlook, disregard, leave out, cut, discount, overleap, dismiss, drop, push aside, brush off, neglect, fail, snub, pretermit

    Antonyms:
    notice, cognize, note, cognise, mark, know

  5. ignoreverb

    be ignorant of or in the dark about

    Synonyms:
    brush aside, snub, brush off, neglect, push aside, disregard, dismiss, cut, discount

    Antonyms:
    know, mark, cognize, cognise, notice, note

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Dictionary of English Synonymes3.0 / 1 vote

  1. ignoreverb

    Synonyms:
    regard as unknown, shut one's eyes to, leave out of view, not recognize, not take into account

  2. ignoreverb

    Synonyms:
    (Law.) reject, set aside

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. ignoreverb

    Synonyms:
    disregard, slight, connive, overlook

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "ignore":

    disregard, overlook, neglect, skip, ignoring, omit, flout, forget, bypass

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How to use ignore in a sentence?

  1. Eli Drinkwitz:

    Everybody has the right to their express their opinions, these young men are playing as hard as they possibly can. They’re not perfect. None of us are. The No. 1 quarterback requirement is: Ignore the noise. You can have one of the worst games you ever had, but with two minutes left, you’ve got to be a rock and you’ve got to believe in yourself. Connor’s doing that.

  2. Abdul Rauf Safari:

    We will no longer accept discrimination and there is no way the government can ignore us this time.

  3. Mariam Abajyan:

    We won't allow the government to ignore us! we will paralyze the whole city and the whole country.

  4. Cheri Patrick:

    Verdicts like these ignore the realities of how and why marriages fail, and remove personal responsibility for a person's own marriage, there are no winners in these cases.

  5. Van Beurden:

    The divest campaign, or Keep it in the Ground or the carbon bubble, ignore reality that 80 percent of the investment in the industry has to be done just to stand still to arrest decline. It is a red herring, it is a very seductive argument and that is why it catches on, but it is a red herring.


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