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ignoring

verbnouncommon in dialogue

The act by which something is ignored.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of ignorepresent participle and gerund of ignore

noun

  1. 1

    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!

    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.

Forms

plural
ignorings
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Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).