Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
ignored, neglected, unheeded
(adjective) disregarded; “his cries were unheeded”; “Shaw’s neglected one-act comedy, ‘A Village Wooing’”; “her ignored advice”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
ignored
simple past tense and past participle of ignore
• Doering, Gironde, Negroid, eroding, groined, negroid, nigredo, redoing
Source: Wiktionary
Ig*nore", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ignored; p. pr. & vb. n. Ignoring.] Etym: [L. ignorare; pref. in- not + the root of gnarus knowing, noscere to become acquainted with. See Know, and cf. Narrate.]
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)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 November 2024
(noun) (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind
Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.