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Definition: IGNORING

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To disregard or neglect. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. To overlook, omit or forget. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. To forsake, abandon, jilt or quit. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. To skip, bounce, jump or leap.[Eve - graph theoretic]
5. Present participle conjugation of the verb ignore.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Verb Base
(ignore)		 1. Refuse to acknowledge.[Wordnet].
2. Bar from attention or consideration.[Wordnet].
3. Fail to notice.[Wordnet].
4. Give little or no attention to.[Wordnet].
5. Be ignorant of or in the dark about.[Wordnet].
6. To be ignorant of or not acquainted with.[Websters].
7. To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence.[Websters].
8. 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.[Websters].
9. Base verb from the following inflections: ignoring, ignored, ignores, ignorer, ignorers, ignoringly and ignoredly.[Eve - graph theoretic]
Adjective 1. Being alienating. [Eve - graph theoretic]
2. Being bouncing. [Eve - graph theoretic]
3. Being blinking. [Eve - graph theoretic]
4. Being slight. [Eve - graph theoretic]
5. Being disapproving. [Eve - graph theoretic]
6. Being disqualifying or disabling.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008.

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Date "Ignoring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1514. (references)


Topics by Level of Interest: IGNORING

Topics sorted by level of Interest Level (1=low, 600=high)     Topics sorted Alphabetically Level (1=low, 600=high)
Tactical ignoring 6     Tactical ignoring 6

Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).

Synonyms: ignoring
Position Synonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 failing, neglecting, ignore, discounting, disregarding, omitting, snubbing, flouting, overruling, dismissing, overlooking, rebuffing, shunning, abbreviating, abridging, ceasing, curving, diluting, dismiss, disobeying, drop, dropping, elide, eliminate, exclude, fail, firing, forget, hacking, issuing, omit, overlook, rationalising, rationalizing, reducing, shortening, slewing, stopping, swerving, terminating, thinning, trimming, veering.
Consider also: eliminating, evading, underestimating, spurning, refusing, disallowing, avoiding, defying, despising, missing, passing, rejecting, discrediting, disobliging, eluding, treating, condoning, relinquishing, abate, banish, cut, delete, dispel, emit, erase, expel, expunge, lose, oust, quit, reduce, abolish.

Noun

 omission, ignorance, overlooker, overpass, editing, foreshortening, pruning, sacking, styling, tailoring.
Consider also: discharge, discount, exhale, failure, darkness, error, exclusion, fault, ellipsis, inadvertence, flyover, mistake, neglect, negligence, oversight, overseer, defect, flaw, taskmasters, miss, slip.

Adjective

 neglectful, slighting, contracting, sheering, trending.
Consider also: clear, utter.

Preposition

 excluding.

Other

 sluing, take out, neglectingly, ignored, neglecter, neglectfulness, pretermission, pretermit, cold-shoulder, disregard, overleap.

Expression

 silent treatment, forget about, leave out by mistake, cut down, leave out, send away, send packing.
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Computed Synonyms: ignoring

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   64.3093   ignoring     dismissing     discharging, renouncing, ousting, annulling, abandoning   
 2   44.3093   ignoring     defending     asserting, maintaining, excluding, removing, backing   
 3   43.3094   ignoring     sulking     pouting, sulk, to sulk, be surly, ignore   
 4   41.3091   ignoring     repudiating     renouncing, abnegating, abstaining, negating, quashing   
 5   39.3095   ignoring     removing     canceling, plucking, unpicking, dropping, remove   
 6   38.3093   ignoring     overruling     demolishing, broking, snapping, degrading, slashing   
 7   36.3093   ignoring     disallowing     quashing, canceling, cancelling, annulling, invalidating   
 8   33.3094   ignoring     renouncing     repudiating, rejecting, discarding, surrendering, dismissing   
 9   32.3092   ignoring     precluding     obstructing, removing, deterring, inhibiting, stopping   
 10   32.3092   ignoring     evacuating     moving, abducting, pulling, slipping, unpicking   
 11   31.3094   ignoring     spurning     rejecting, refusing, repudiating, repelling, repulsing   
 12   29.3094   ignoring     alienating     averting, diverting, detaching, deviating, swerving   
 13   28.3094   ignoring     diverting     tossing, reorganising, overturning, inverting, sidetracking   
 14   28.3093   ignoring     abducting     evacuating, abduct, demounting, doffing, snatch   
 15   28.3093   ignoring     abnegating     repudiating, refusing, rejecting, relinquishing, abandoning   
--------------------     603 synonyms ranked from 16 to 618 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Synonyms via Expressions: ignoring

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Word

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   19.0593   ignoring     to ignore     ignore, pass over, leave out of account   
 2   14.0090   ignoring     pass over     ignore, overlook, pass   
 3   13.0091   ignoring     lay aside     leave out, forsake, fail   
 4   13.0090   ignoring     fall down     drop, topple, fall   
 5   13.0090   ignoring     be slovenly     spoil, mess up, ruin   
 6   13.0090   ignoring     leave out     omit, overlook, leave   
 7   4.0178   ignoring     have sexual intercourse     have sex, screw around, commit adultery   
 8   4.0092   ignoring     blow up     blow out, inflate, explode   
 9   4.0091   ignoring     start up     start, begin, launch   
 10   4.0091   ignoring     to sauté     sauté, skip, shoot   
 11   4.0091   ignoring     to blast     explode, blow up, pop   
 12   4.0085   ignoring     roast chestnuts     to blast, start up, miss out   
 13   4.0082   ignoring     make a little jump     jump, leap, bounce   
 14   2.0193   ignoring     put in     insert, lay, put   
 15   2.0193   ignoring     poke in     run in, put in, drop in   
--------------------     36 synonyms ranked from 16 to 51 abridged     --------------------

Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top

Computed Expressions: ignoring

 Rank

 Intensity 

 Expression

 Synonyms

 Synonyms of synonym

 1   1.3083   discarding and ignoring     losing sight of         
Source: calculated by Eve using graph theory. "Intensity" is a score indicating the number of overlapping cliques where the word pair is found (an integer before the decimal); the first digit after the decimal is the number of overlapping terminal characters up to 9; the second characters is number of leading common characters up to 9; the last two digits measure the Levenshtein distance subtracted from 100. Top
Antonyms: ignoring
Position Antonyms (sorted by strength)

Verb

 recognize, examine, realize, explore, investigate, accept, acknowledging, assume, observing.
Consider also: reacting, noticing, accepting, addressing, considering, distinguishing, heeding, replying, tackling, enforcing, obeying, remembering.

Noun

 greeting.

Adjective

 courting.

Preposition

 including.

Other

 honoring.
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Translations: IGNORING

Language Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Abakwariga bìris (ignoring). Additional references: Abakwariga, Nigeria, Benin, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian zanemarivanje (ignoring), ignoriranje (disregard, ignoring, slight), ignorující (ignoring, insouciant). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Brazilian Portuguese desleixando (ignoring, omitting), desconhecendo (disowning, ignoring), ignorando (ignoring), Ignorar (to ignore, disregard, ignore, bypass, dissembler). Additional references: Brazilian Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina zanemarivanje (ignoring), ignoriranje (disregard, ignoring, slight), ignorující (ignoring, insouciant). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Chtimi bacler (ignore, overlook, to ignore, fail, omit). Additional references: Chtimi, France, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Corse trascurà (abandon, forsake, to abandon, to forsake, despise), tralascià (jump, leap, sauté, to sauté, skip), omette (jump, omit, to omit, pass, spend), dimenticà (forget, to forget, be slovenly, bury, cut), ignoranti (ignoramus, ignorant, ignorants, ignoring, nescient). Additional references: Corse, France, Italy, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsi trascurà (abandon, forsake, to abandon, to forsake, despise), tralascià (jump, leap, sauté, to sauté, skip), omette (jump, omit, to omit, pass, spend), dimenticà (forget, to forget, be slovenly, bury, cut), ignoranti (ignoramus, ignorant, ignorants, ignoring, nescient). Additional references: Corsi, France, Italy, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsican trascurà (abandon, forsake, to abandon, to forsake, despise), tralascià (jump, leap, sauté, to sauté, skip), omette (jump, omit, to omit, pass, spend), dimenticà (forget, to forget, be slovenly, bury, cut), ignoranti (ignoramus, ignorant, ignorants, ignoring, nescient). Additional references: Corsican, France, Italy, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Corso trascurà (abandon, forsake, to abandon, to forsake, despise), tralascià (jump, leap, sauté, to sauté, skip), omette (jump, omit, to omit, pass, spend), dimenticà (forget, to forget, be slovenly, bury, cut), ignoranti (ignoramus, ignorant, ignorants, ignoring, nescient). Additional references: Corso, France, Italy, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Corsu trascurà (abandon, forsake, to abandon, to forsake, despise), tralascià (jump, leap, sauté, to sauté, skip), omette (jump, omit, to omit, pass, spend), dimenticà (forget, to forget, be slovenly, bury, cut), ignoranti (ignoramus, ignorant, ignorants, ignoring, nescient). Additional references: Corsu, France, Italy, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech zanemarivanje (ignoring), ignoriranje (disregard, ignoring, slight), ignorující (ignoring, insouciant). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Daco-Rumanian ignorare (cut, ignorance, ignoring, passing by). Additional references: Daco-Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch übergehend (transitive, ignoring, transitively, transmigrating), überhörend (ignoring), vernachlässigend (neglecting, ignoring, negligent), ignorieren (ignore, to ignore, disregard, slight, hush up), hinwegsetzend (ignoring), hinweggehend (ignoring), ausklammernd (eliminating, factoring out, excluding, ignoring), aufopfernd (sacrificing, dedicated, devotional, ignoring), übersehend (overlooking, ignoring), ignorierend (ignoring, disregardful). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Français méconnaissant (ignoring, underrating), négligeant (neglecting, ignoring), ignorant (ignoring, ignorant, unaware, ignoramus, ill-informed), négliger (neglect, disregard, overlook, fail, omit), ignorance (ignorance, darkness, lack of knowledge, blindness, foolishness). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
French méconnaissant (ignoring, underrating), négligeant (neglecting, ignoring), ignorant (ignoring, ignorant, unaware, ignoramus, ill-informed), négliger (neglect, disregard, overlook, fail, omit), ignorance (ignorance, darkness, lack of knowledge, blindness, foolishness). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
German übergehend (transitive, ignoring, transitively, transmigrating), überhörend (ignoring), vernachlässigend (neglecting, ignoring, negligent), ignorieren (ignore, to ignore, disregard, slight, hush up), hinwegsetzend (ignoring), hinweggehend (ignoring), ausklammernd (eliminating, factoring out, excluding, ignoring), aufopfernd (sacrificing, dedicated, devotional, ignoring), übersehend (overlooking, ignoring), ignorierend (ignoring, disregardful). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Habe bìris (ignoring). Additional references: Habe, Nigeria, Benin, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Haoussa bìris (ignoring). Additional references: Haoussa, Nigeria, Benin, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Hausa bìris (ignoring). Additional references: Hausa, Nigeria, Benin, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Hausawa bìris (ignoring). Additional references: Hausawa, Nigeria, Benin, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
High German übergehend (transitive, ignoring, transitively, transmigrating), überhörend (ignoring), vernachlässigend (neglecting, ignoring, negligent), ignorieren (ignore, to ignore, disregard, slight, hush up), hinwegsetzend (ignoring), hinweggehend (ignoring), ausklammernd (eliminating, factoring out, excluding, ignoring), aufopfernd (sacrificing, dedicated, devotional, ignoring), übersehend (overlooking, ignoring), ignorierend (ignoring, disregardful). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch übergehend (transitive, ignoring, transitively, transmigrating), überhörend (ignoring), vernachlässigend (neglecting, ignoring, negligent), ignorieren (ignore, to ignore, disregard, slight, hush up), hinwegsetzend (ignoring), hinweggehend (ignoring), ausklammernd (eliminating, factoring out, excluding, ignoring), aufopfernd (sacrificing, dedicated, devotional, ignoring), übersehend (overlooking, ignoring), ignorierend (ignoring, disregardful). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian ignorando (ignoring), disconoscendo (disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, ignoring), ignorare (ignore, to ignore, disregard, be unconscious of, disregarding), sconoscendo (ignoring), misconoscendo (ignoring), alcuni parametri della linea comando non sono stati riconosciuti e verranno ignorati (ignoring extra command line parameters), tipo di finestra sconosciuto nel jump popup (ignoring window type in popup jump), pagine opzionali ignorate (ignoring optional pages). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese 没却 (discarding and ignoring, losing sight of), 臭い物に蓋 (hushing up a problem, looking the other way, solving a problem by ignoring it, hushing, ignoring), くさいものにふた (hushing up a problem, looking the other way, solving a problem by ignoring it), ぼっきゃく (artist, discarding and ignoring, losing sight of, writer). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Kado bìris (ignoring). Additional references: Kado, Nigeria, Benin, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Latvian ignorēšana (defiance, disdain, disregard, ignoring, slight). Additional references: Latvian, Latvia, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Latviska ignorēšana (defiance, disdain, disregard, ignoring, slight). Additional references: Latviska, Latvia, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Lettisch ignorēšana (defiance, disdain, disregard, ignoring, slight). Additional references: Lettisch, Latvia, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Lettish ignorēšana (defiance, disdain, disregard, ignoring, slight). Additional references: Lettish, Latvia, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Mgbakpa bìris (ignoring). Additional references: Mgbakpa, Nigeria, Benin, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Moldavian ignorare (cut, ignorance, ignoring, passing by). Additional references: Moldavian, Romania, Hungary, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Ouolof suufeel (minimize, to minimize, abase, to abase, belittle), sàggane (ignore, overlook, to ignore, fail, omit). Additional references: Ouolof, Senegal, Mauritania, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Picard bacler (ignore, overlook, to ignore, fail, omit). Additional references: Picard, Belgium, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Portuguese ignorando (ignoring), desconhecendo (ignoring, disowning), desleixando (ignoring, omitting), Ignorar (ignore, disregard, to ignore, bypass, dissembler). Additional references: Portuguese, Portugal, Angola, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Romanian ignorare (cut, ignorance, ignoring, passing by). Additional references: Romanian, Romania, Hungary, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Rouchi bacler (ignore, overlook, to ignore, fail, omit). Additional references: Rouchi, Belgium, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Rumanian ignorare (cut, ignorance, ignoring, passing by). Additional references: Rumanian, Romania, Hungary, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish ignorando (ignoring), soslayando (ignoring), desoyendo (ignoring), desentendiéndose (ignoring), desconociendo (disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, ignoring, unknowing), desatendiendo (disobeying, ignoring), arrumbando (excluding, ignoring), ignorar (ignore, to ignore, disregard, ignorant of, be a stranger to). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Volof suufeel (minimize, to minimize, abase, to abase, belittle), sàggane (ignore, overlook, to ignore, fail, omit). Additional references: Volof, Senegal, Mauritania, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Walaf suufeel (minimize, to minimize, abase, to abase, belittle), sàggane (ignore, overlook, to ignore, fail, omit). Additional references: Walaf, Senegal, Mauritania, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Waro-Waro suufeel (minimize, to minimize, abase, to abase, belittle), sàggane (ignore, overlook, to ignore, fail, omit). Additional references: Waro-Waro, Senegal, Mauritania, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Wolof suufeel (minimize, to minimize, abase, to abase, belittle), sàggane (ignore, overlook, to ignore, fail, omit). Additional references: Wolof, Senegal, Mauritania, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
Yallof suufeel (minimize, to minimize, abase, to abase, belittle), sàggane (ignore, overlook, to ignore, fail, omit). Additional references: Yallof, Senegal, Mauritania, ignoring. (volunteer & more translations)
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Constructed Language Translations: IGNORING

Language Translations for “ignoring” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag athagignathagorathaging (ignoring). Additional references: Athag, ignoring. (volunteer)
Double Dutch agignagoraging (ignoring). Additional references: Double Dutch, ignoring. (volunteer)
Leet !&|\|()|2!|\|& (ignoring). Additional references: Leet, ignoring. (volunteer)
Oppish opignoporoping (ignoring). Additional references: Oppish, ignoring. (volunteer)
Pig Latin ignoringway (ignoring). Additional references: Pig Latin, ignoring. (volunteer)
Terran B ignoranene (ignoring). Additional references: Terran B, ignoring. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi ubignuborubing (ignoring). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, ignoring. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: IGNORING

Language Period Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Old French 900 - 1400 nonchaloir (despise, to despise, ignore, overlook, to ignore). Additional references: Old French, ignoring. (volunteer)
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