Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: ignore
IPA transcription: [,ɪɡn'ɔɹ]
Pronunciations of ignore
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verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: ignore, disregard, snub, cut
    Meaning: refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting"
  • Synonyms: dismiss, disregard, brush_aside, brush_off, discount, push_aside, ignore
    Meaning: bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances"
  • Synonyms: ignore
    Meaning: fail to notice
  • Synonyms: neglect, ignore, disregard
    Meaning: give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors"
Usage examples
  • The Squire, out of his own district, we ignore.
  • Dicky's voice held a note of appeal, but I chose to ignore it.
  • He had ignored them; and he expected that now she, too, would ignore them.
  • "We are civilized, after all. You can't expect us to fight a war--and you surely can't expect us to ignore the plight of sick neighbors?"
  • In a measure he did relieve his feelings by expressing his opinion of Herbert Rackliff, who was brazenly seeking to ignore the open disdain of his schoolmates.
  • To have done so would have been to ignore the evidence of two hundred pairs of eyes, all belonging to men willing to make affidavit of the fact--for it could not be pronounced a fancy.
  • A question addressed to him that was unrelated to what was in hand he would ignore, appearing not to have heard it; on the other hand a remark germane to the trend of his thoughts would produce an instant reply.
  • We don't get along and I haven't exchanged a word with her in years." We might perhaps ignore this sort of thing if the dreamers did not confirm or deny the tendencies ascribed to them; we could say that they are matters which the dreamers do not know about themselves.
  • It is worth noting that while our Christian advocates insist with all their might, such as it is, upon the resurrection of Jesus, they willingly pass over as lightly as possible, if they do not altogether ignore, a similar miracle guaranteed by the very same authority.
  • With hands tight-clasped between his knees, fearing to look at her, Noakes listened while she sang him into a half-visualized dream, as obsessing as it was immanent, which he clung to and enjoyed to the full in order that he might ignore the longing then to speak his thought.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Illuminatus! Trilogy, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Mortara case, License CC BY-SA 4.0