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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

Ignorare

Pronunciation / Transliteration: een-yo-rah-reh

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ignore/ɪɡˈnɔːr/
verbCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #850 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Ha deciso di ignorare i commenti negativi."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As verb
  1. 1

    To refuse to acknowledge or pay attention to something.

    "She decided to ignore the negative comments and focus on her work."
  2. 2

    To intentionally overlook or disregard.

    "He chose to ignore the warning signs and continued with his plan."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin verb ignorare, meaning 'not to know' or 'to be ignorant of', formed from in- ('not') and a root related to gnoscere ('to know'). Entering Middle French as ignorer in the 15th century, the term later shifted in English during the 17th century from its original sense of 'unawareness' to the deliberate refusal to pay attention or acknowledge someone or something.

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