ignoring
ignoring is the present participle and gerund of ignore.
Meaning of ignore
Verb
ignore (third-person singular simple present ignores, present participle ignoring, simple past and past participle ignored)
- To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
- A problem ignored is a problem doubled.
- To pretend to not notice someone or something.
- Fail to notice.
- Not to know.
- Synonyms:
- be ignorant of
- Antonyms:
- know
Noun
ignoring (plural ignorings)
- The act by which something is ignored.
- Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102
- We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S does not ignore them. S is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because S never knew much of anything.1999, David Lewis, Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology, volume 2, page 437
Forms of ignoring
| plural | ignorings |
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Words that rhyme with ignoring
Questions about ignoring
- What does ignoring mean?
- Ignoring means the act by which something is ignored.
- What is ignoring the present participle and gerund of?
- Ignoring is the present participle and gerund of ignore.
- What part of speech is ignoring?
- Ignoring is a noun.
- What is the plural of ignoring?
- The plural of ignoring is ignorings.
Words near ignoring in the dictionary
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