Thesaurus: ignore

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1. v. t. To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.
2. v. t. 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. v. t. 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.
4. v. refuse to acknowledge
5. v. bar from attention or consideration
6. v. fail to notice
7. v. give little or no attention to
8. 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.
9. To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of abill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus.
10. v:100 v. refuse to acknowledge v. fail to notice v. be ignorant of or in the dark about