IGNORED

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


Verb

ignored

simple past tense and past participle of ignore

Anagrams

• Doering, Gironde, Negroid, eroding, groined, negroid, nigredo, redoing

Source: Wiktionary


IGNORE

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



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