ignoreig‧nore /ɪɡˈnɔː $ -ˈnɔːr/ ●●● S2 W2 AWL verb [transitive] 
You can’t ignore the fact that many criminals never go to prison. problems which we can’t afford to ignore2to behave as if you had not heard or seen someone or something: The phone rang, but she ignored it. Sam rudely ignored the question.completely/totally ignore somebody/something He had completely ignored her remark, preferring his own theory.RegisterIn everyday British English, people often say take no notice of something or not take any notice of something rather than ignore something:· There are signs telling you not to smoke, but people don’t take any notice of them.
WORD ORIGINignore
Origin:
1600-1700 French ignorer ‘not to know’, from Latin, from ignarus ‘not knowing, unknown’, from in- ‘not’ + gnoscere ‘to know’VERB TABLE
ignore
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | ignore |
| he, she, it | ignores | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | ignored |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have ignored |
| he, she, it | has ignored | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had ignored |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will ignore |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have ignored |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am ignoring |
| he, she, it | is ignoring | |
| you, we, they | are ignoring | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was ignoring |
| you, we, they | were ignoring | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been ignoring |
| he, she, it | has been ignoring | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been ignoring |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be ignoring |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been ignoring |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Ignoring my warnings, he dived straight into the shallow water.
- Don't ignore me when I'm talking to you!
- It was very stupid of you to ignore your mother's advice.
- Just ignore him and he'll stop pestering you.
- My father's always telling me what to do, but I usually just ignore him.
- Now that she had lost all her wealth, she was ignored by former friends.
- She ignored my question and continued her story.
- Someone made a rude noise, which the teacher decided to ignore.
- The school board has continually ignored the complaints of parents.
- The waiter totally ignored Glen and served a girl who had come up beside him.
- As the tree burned, it sighed at what happiness it had ignored, and each sigh made a loud popping noise.
- But an alternative explanation had also come to him which he knew he should not ignore.
- Fox is a greedy billionaire who ignores his daughter and ends up turning her into gold.
- Habermas rejects this analysis because the level of communicative action can have an impact on the process of modernization that Marcuse ignored.
- He ignored Cranston's excited pleas to hurry and went over to the window, unrolling them carefully.
- It is equally wrong, however, to think it is possible to ignore the practical dimensions of life.
- Olivia was sitting with a group of social admin people, who were all ignoring her.
Longman Language Activatorto not pay attention to what someone says or does
to deliberately pay no attention to what someone does or says, and pretend it is not important or does not affect you: · She ignored my question and continued her story.· Someone made a rude noise, which the teacher decided to ignore.· My father's always telling me what to do, but I usually just ignore him.ignore somebody's advice/warning: · It was very stupid of you to ignore your mother's advice.· Ignoring my warnings, he dived straight into the shallow water.
to ignore someone or something, especially by not watching or listening to them: · "What's this injection for?'' he asked the nurse. She paid no attention, rolling up his sleeve in silence.· People living near the crash scene paid no attention when they heard the aircraft's engine cut out in mid-air. pay no attention/not pay any attention to: · More than half the people questioned said they did not pay any attention to political broadcasts.
not to let someone affect what you do or the way you feel: · Stan has fired me before. I usually take no notice and turn up for work again the next day.take no notice/not take any notice of: · Take no notice of him. He's just being silly.· He never took any notice of the baby, even when it screamed.
to ignore someone's advice when they talk to you: · You never listen to me. You just do whatever you want.· It's because you didn't listen to Roger that you are in this trouble now.not listen to reason (=not listen to sensible advice): · We all warned Susan not to marry that man, but she wouldn't listen to reason.
if your request or suggestion falls on deaf ears , it is ignored by the people who have the power to deal with it: · The workers' demand for a wage increase has fallen on deaf ears.· As rioting continued, Mayor Warren appealed for calm, but his words fell on deaf ears.
informal to not be willing to listen to people's problems, complaints, bad news etc because you do not want to be worried by them: · You'd think the government would be concerned about people sleeping rough, but they just don't want to know.not want to know about: · If you're going to start an argument with Alex, I don't want to know about it.
especially American to deliberately not listen to what someone is saying, especially because it is unpleasant or you have heard it before: tune out something: · He had learned to tune out the kids' constant questions.tune something out: · There was a warning voice in the back of her mind, but she tuned it out.
to rudely pretend not to notice someone · Don't ignore me when I'm talking to you!· Now that she had lost all her wealth, she was ignored by former friends.totally/completely ignore somebody · The waiter totally ignored Glen and served a girl who had come up beside him.
· Henry waved but Martha pretended not to notice.· If people think you're a beggar, they pretend not to see you.
to pretend not to notice someone that you know, even though you are looking directly at them: · I saw Carrie yesterday, but when I smiled at her she just looked right through me.· In the lift at work, the doctors looked right through you as if you didn't exist.
to ignore someone deliberately, in order to show that you are angry with them or that you have no respect for them: · I couldn't believe Simon had snubbed me at the party.· The senator was furious. "How would you feel if you'd been snubbed by the wife of your president?''snub somebody's invitation/request etc: · They snubbed his invitation to a meeting of foreign ministers at the UN in New York.
to completely ignore someone when you see them, especially because you are angry with them: · I saw Josie today - she must still be angry with me because she cut me dead.· Where he used to cut them dead, he now helps them on with their coats.
informal if someone blanks you, they pretend not to notice you even though your eyes are facing theirs: · I said hello to her in the street, but she just blanked me and carried on walking.
British if a group of people send someone to Coventry , they all agree they will not talk to that person as a punishment: · Unfairly sent to Coventry for two weeks, Hannah decided to run away from school.
to ignore something bad, even though you know it is wrong to ignore something wrong that someone has done, especially because it is unimportant: · I'll overlook your mistake this time.· Mrs Johnson tends to overlook any small faults the girls may have.· Although this is a first offence it cannot be overlooked.
to decide not to punish or criticize someone for doing something wrong, although you might do so if they do it again: · I think they've broken the rules, but I'll let it pass.· Howard had insulted her, but she thought it better to let it pass this time.
if someone in authority turns a blind eye to illegal activity or bad behaviour, they ignore it and pretend they do not know about it: · If my sister did something wrong my mother always turned a blind eye.· The guards turned a blind eye when the prisoners stole food from the kitchen.turn a blind eye to: · The President could no longer turn a blind eye to the indiscretions of his Chief of Staff.
to ignore something and pretend it does not exist because it is unpleasant or difficult to deal with: · The officials in charge of the Chernobyl power station had shut their eyes to the danger.· Of course, it is tempting to criticize other countries and close your eyes to all the problems of your own society.
to ignore an unpleasant situation and hope it will stop if you try not to think about it: · You'll never solve your problems if you just bury your head in the sand -- you have to face them.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY You can’t ignore the fact that many criminals never go to prison. He had completely ignored her remark, preferring his own theory.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
1to deliberately pay no attention to something that you have been told or that you know about: You can’t ignore the fact that many criminals never go to prison. He had completely ignored her remark, preferring his own theory. (=not do what someone tells you)· The accident happened because she ignored their advice.
· Anyone who disobeys these orders will be severely punished.
· They are ignoring the reality of Arab politics.
· He ignored my remark and carried on working.
· They ignored repeated requests to leave the property.
· He had ignored their warning to stay in the car.
· It is important not to ignore the wishes of the patient.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· Local authorities had almost completely ignored the Norwood report of 1943.· Serious movies with smaller budgets and smaller potential returns were almost completely ignored.· Only a minority of pupils take part in high quality experimental science-which is often completely ignored until they are 14.· Completely ignoring the fact you hit only flesh, which it looks like it to me.· But that does not mean that those Old Testament rituals should now be completely ignored.· In fact, this estimate completely ignores the value of all the other ingredients of asteroids besides iron.· That is not to say the report has been ignored completely.· Some of the man-apes it ignored completely, as if it was concentrating on the most promising subjects.
· She would rage at the boys; they largely ignored her.· Forbes was largely ignored until he rose in the polls.· The debate on the role of the state has largely ignored the fact that state means more than government.· In our view the benefits of local economic development generally have been exaggerated while the costs have been largely ignored.· Most of these effects are simply curiosities for the network engineer and are largely ignored by the majority of designers.· But until recently the changes were largely ignored.· The economic literature largely ignores the fact that the public sector has devised its own alternative modes of efficiency incentive.· The great scholars also are largely ignored for their craft skills and precise goals in scholarship.
· Unfortunately, just as the emotional needs of mentally disordered people are often ignored, so too are their spiritual needs.· In regard to the use of field interviewers, the social and psychological aspects of studies are all too often ignored.· We often ignore intuition, when it's possible that intuitive responses are our past experiences lodged in our unconscious minds.· Yet this limitation is very often ignored sometimes deliberately, sometimes out of sheer ignorance in muddling speech and writing.· This may seem obvious advice, but it is often ignored.· Snoring, or other sounds that occur with regularity, are often ignored by sleepers.· In this way, he identifies costs which anti-insider dealers have often ignored.· We look in the door and realize that, unless they are brought to our attention, we often ignore our surroundings.
· These demands were simply ignored by the municipal government.· Lettie purposely lingered behind Patrice, fighting off her natural inclination to simply ignore the woman and brush past her.· I sulk, I ask him why, but he simply ignores me.· As usually happens with environmental issues, reality was simply ignored or suspended.· He had already offered his resignation, twice, and Mr Malik had simply ignored it.· They explicitly denied any independent role for rational women and simply ignored the whole process of reproduction.· Science simply ignored the fact that livestock are creatures with a capacity to suffer.· But for most, in a community that is studiously disinterested in celebrity, Simpson is simply ignored.
· The document has almost totally ignored motorcycling.· A better approach is to continue to be friendly and businesslike, while totally ignoring their petty comments.· The youngsters learn that there is nothing to fear and, after a time, they also totally ignore the traffic noise.· We were practically shocked our results were totally ignored.· Otherwise we just elect a few representatives who can totally ignore our wishes for several years after we have counted the votes.· They would rave for twenty minutes about the mouse, and totally ignore the significance of bit-mapping.· She was, in short, too bloody much, and not only that, she was totally ignoring me.· The neuron may totally ignore regions of visual space lacking boundaries.
· Horizontal influences have been virtually ignored in Soviet and Western historiography alike.· But when he visits their classrooms, they virtually ignore his presence.· In contrast, non-communicable diseases have been virtually ignored by local health departments.· Once, this was difficult to cross; then, railways spanned it; now, air travel virtually ignores it.· General elections have become more presidential and the mass media virtually ignore the secondary party leaders.· Meanwhile, the cyber gods controlling the random selection virtually ignored some large districts in other areas of the state.· Batch processes and multipurpose plants are virtually ignored.· After months of virtually ignoring the programs, and years of well-publicized cutbacks, airlines and hotels are suddenly getting generous.
NOUN· It was Graham herself, ignoring strong advice from Post lawyers, who made the call.· The fee was 25,000 - and Collins ignored the advice of a friend when he signed.· If you routinely ignore this bit of advice, like most travelers, take a minute now and think about it.· It's believed they were shot after ignoring advice to turn back.· I've tried everything from ignoring them to offering advice and I don't know what to do anymore.· I do so hope he ignores my advice.· The Thing could be deliberately infuriating at times, but it didn't pay to ignore its advice.
· Conservative leader Tony Richmond said the study by chief executive Clive Owen had ignored crucial evidence.· In order to keep family peace, Clemens chose to ignore early evidence that Webster was a swindler.· To deny the importance of the family as a source of care would be to ignore the accumulated evidence of several decades.· In our view, however, the cautious approach is not to ignore the epidemiological evidence of declining semen quality.· Why does the Prime Minister ignore all that evidence?· Complexities within the Devonian have similarly been ignored for lack of evidence.· But to ignore the evidence of differences in performance between gender or ethnic groups can lead to unjust treatment of individuals.
· We can not ignore the fact that long-held attitudes were in the process of change.· The debate on the role of the state has largely ignored the fact that state means more than government.· The economic literature largely ignores the fact that the public sector has devised its own alternative modes of efficiency incentive.· She was in trousers as usual, ignoring the fact that they might well be invited to dinner with the count.· This approach ignores the fact that the taxpayer first had to acquire the right to grant sub-licenses.
· The reason is not that he ignored domestic issues.· Even more than the theories discussed before, utilitarianism ignores the problematic issue of the discourse's scientific object, the subject.· Women should not go into hiding again and ignore this issue.· In yet another report, Lord Hunt of Tamworth ignored the vital issue of technical standards for a future cabling system.· Labour and the Alliance seemed to ignore the issue.· Dozens of people had explained the need for a real opposition, but the commission simply ignored the issue.
· In our concern that evangelism should happen spontaneously we can not ignore the need for planning and structure.· President Kim took the wrong course in favor of big business, ignoring the needs of the majority of the people.· The Government perhaps ignore the need for safety, but many women take it very seriously.· Not only did the new managers feel they neglected their family lives, they ignored their need for leisure and relaxation.· Teams are insufficiently concerned with their own social needs, i.e. they ignore their own need for development and social maturing.· To date, rural planners have virtually ignored the need for cooking energy.· At the same time companies are being advised to ignore the needs of those who are well into retirement.
· Most committees ignore touchy problems until they go away of their own accord.· A three-dollar conversion would have corrected the design defect, but the corporation chose to ignore the problem.· We do not have the choice to ignore the organisational problems that these self-sealing loops are creating.· Pluralists ignore the problem of group formation.· Were we to say nothing about it, or to ignore the problem that exists and the unrest in the black community?· Others will ignore the problem and let the children sort it out themselves.· To do so, however, would be to ignore the awkward problem of adequate representation for minority interests.
· Angry villagers claim Labour-controlled Wrekin council has ignored their protests by backing the scheme.· He bullied the school board which, in theory, employed him, and he chose to ignore the black protest.
· Feel free to ignore those questions that don't apply to you.· Brazenly, Rumsfeld ignored the question, but it was an eloquent omission.· But Svidrigailov ignores the question and starts talking about politics.· When I ask if anything is wrong, she ignores my question.· At first he thought she was going to ignore his question.· Business Week is not alone in ignoring such questions.· First, if the foregoing appears to ignore questions of democracy within the enterprise that is only because of the order of exposition.
· But Berisha, tied up in an election year and basking in Western political support, ignored the warnings.· A gutsy and popular player, Howe ignored medical warnings despite previous heart tremors.· She ignored the outside warnings about Adrienne from the older ones who frequented the places where she sang.· I might ignore all the warnings and even try to convince other people that lung cancer does not really exist.· Above all why had he, Mungo, ignored the warning and involved himself?· And for months they have ignored repeated U.S. warnings about the dangers of this new, aggressive policy.· Those who ignore the warnings do so at their peril, however.
VERB· Yet at the same time he can not afford to ignore hardline opinion at home.· It can not afford to ignore the elements of the complex.· Only those who can afford to ignore these constraints feel capable of exercising a choice to retain a more traditional agricultural landscape.· No left-leaning government can afford to ignore the centre-right.· The financial markets are themselves an immensely powerful influence which we can never afford to ignore.· No later writer could afford to ignore so well-placed a source.· He says none of the parties can afford to ignore the fact that thousands of people die of starvation each week.· Nevertheless few expatriates can afford just to ignore this Budget.
· They jointly chose to ignore their employer's orders and statutory safety regulations, by testing detonators without taking shelter.· In order to keep family peace, Clemens chose to ignore early evidence that Webster was a swindler.· Dame Ermengilde, her nose in the air, chose to ignore them.· It is not that he saw and chose to ignore formal distinctions based on function or hierarchical position.· He had chosen to ignore the fact that she took out her frustrations on Carla.· He bullied the school board which, in theory, employed him, and he chose to ignore the black protest.· Those companies who choose to ignore the power of a desk-top micro will do so at their peril.· I shall refrain from doing so, though even the dust jacket has chosen to ignore that discretion.
· Cross and continue up field, ignoring gate on right and bear slightly left to gate leading uphill to farm.· Roberto Madrazo does not resign and if Pemex continues to ignore more than 63, 000 damage claims.· Previous answers assume that evolution will continue unchanged they ignore developments such as genetic engineering.· When I continued to ignore him, he got out of the car and opened the back door.· Offstage she was scrupulously polite to him, an exercise that was totally wasted as he continued to ignore her.· Dario continued to ignore me as he moved toward the bed slowly, I thought like some one in a trance.· Unfortunately, they also continue to be ignored by those who produce official reports and government guidelines.· The stock market continues to ignore everything.
· The Archbishop's implied command that he leave the matter alone he decided to ignore.· I decided to ignore my hair and clean my other dress.· If Anna wanted to be sullen, Liz decided she was best ignored.· For some reason my first thought is that it is Glendenning, who has decided to ignore the dark-skinned judge and snoop.· Then I finally realised you could see it, but you'd decided simply to ignore it.· I decided to try to ignore it as I did not want anything to distract me from my purpose.
· At each stage goals shift in importance and organizations tend to ignore this fact.· The old laws were so irrelevant to post-Soviet life that even the police tended to ignore them.· Problems that can not be resolved by reasoned debate have tended to be ignored in the hope that they will go away.· Some patients with right-brain strokes tend to ignore anything on the left side of their visual world.· Reich tended to ignore the interconnection, but it was an important one for Freud's sociology.· It's just that now I tend to ignore it.· Grace, however, tended to ignore Luke when he came to stay, doing her duty without love or warmth.· More confident horses tend to ignore the other horses in such situations - unless they are stallions.
· Slumping back on the pillow, she tried to ignore it.· In fact, they tried to ignore their ethnicity altogether.· The only way was to push straight ahead and try to ignore them.· Me, trying to ignore it all while I section a grapefruit for the teen-ager.· Here again the technique is to try to ignore the microphone and talk directly to the interviewer.· She considered, trying to ignore the jangling hangers, with their cold, quick touch.· I tried to ignore the now more muted sounds of their inmates, keeping my eyes firmly on the floor.· I've tried everything from ignoring them to offering advice and I don't know what to do anymore.
You can’t ignore the fact that many criminals never go to prison. problems which we can’t afford to ignore2to behave as if you had not heard or seen someone or something: The phone rang, but she ignored it. Sam rudely ignored the question.completely/totally ignore somebody/something He had completely ignored her remark, preferring his own theory.RegisterIn everyday British English, people often say take no notice of something or not take any notice of something rather than ignore something:· There are signs telling you not to smoke, but people don’t take any notice of them.