Thesaurus:ignore
English
Verb
(transitive)
Sense: to deliberately not pay attention to
Synonyms
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- air (slang, UK)
- blank (slang)
- cold-shoulder
- cut someone cold
- cut someone dead
- ghost [⇒ thesaurus] (slang)
- give someone the brush-off (idiomatic)
- give someone the cold shoulder (idiomatic)
- leper (fig., rare)
- ostracize
- send to Coventry (idiomatic)
- shun
- slight
- snub
- boycott [⇒ thesaurus]
- disobey [⇒ thesaurus]
Various
- close one's eyes (idiomatic)
- look the other way (idiomatic)
- shut one's eyes (idiomatic)
- turn a blind eye (idiomatic)
- turn a deaf ear (idiomatic)
- turn one's back (idiomatic)
- zone out
See also
- Thesaurus:fail to notice (unintentional act)
- Thesaurus:avoid
Further reading
- “460. neglect” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “773. nonobservance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “ignore” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.