Ignore
verbTo deliberately pay no attention to someone or something.
How to spell ignore
6 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce ignore
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does ignore mean?
- verbTo deliberately pay no attention to someone or something.
Ignore in a sentence
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She decided to ignore the rude comment and keep working.
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It is risky to ignore the warning lights on the dashboard.
Where does ignore come from?
Language of origin: Latin
This word traces back to the Latin verb ignorare, which meant 'not to know' or 'to be unacquainted with'. That verb was built from the prefix in-, meaning 'not', combined with the root gnarus, meaning 'knowing' or 'aware', the same family of words that gave us 'know' and 'narrate'. English borrowed it through French ignorer in the early 1600s, at first keeping the older sense of simply being ignorant of something. Over time the meaning shifted from 'failing to know' to the modern idea of deliberately refusing to notice or pay attention to something. That history explains the spelling: the silent root means the word is built on 'know' without sounding like it, and the single g before the n is the only consonant doubling to watch.
How the word is built
- i- (from Latin in-: not)
- gnor (from gnarus: knowing)
- -e
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