Ignored

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ignore \Ig*nore"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Ignored}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Ignoring}.] [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]
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              Philosophy would solidly be established, if men
              would more carefully distinguish those things that
              they know from those that they ignore. --Boyle.
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     2. (Law) To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; --
        said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for lack of
        evidence. See {Ignoramus}.
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     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.
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              Ignoring Italy under our feet,
              And seeing things before, behind.     --Mrs.
                                                    Browning.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ignored
       adj : disregarded; "his cries were unheeded"; "Shaw's neglected
             one-act comedy, `A Village Wooing'"; "her ignored
             advice" [syn: {neglected}, {unheeded}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  62 Moby Thesaurus words for "ignored":
     abandoned, contemned, declined, declined with thanks, denied,
     deserted, despised, disapproved, discarded, discounted, disdained,
     dismissed, disowned, disregarded, excepted, excluded, forgotten,
     forsworn, half-done, ill-requited, ill-rewarded, laid aside,
     left undone, missed, neglected, not considered, omitted,
     overlooked, passed by, passed over, passed up, pigeonholed,
     put aside, rebuffed, refused, rejected, renounced, repudiated,
     repulsed, scouted, shunted, sidelined, sidetracked, slighted,
     spurned, unacknowledged, unasked, unattended to, uncared-for,
     unchaperoned, unconsidered, uncredited, undone, unfairly neglected,
     unrecognized, unregarded, unrequited, unrewarded, unsolicited,
     untended, unthanked, unwatched