ignoring
verbnouncommon in dialogue
The act by which something is ignored.
verb
- 1
Also a form of ignorepresent participle and gerund of ignore
noun
- 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
Ignorance · A personification of ignorance.ignorant · Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.ignore · To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
ignoring · The act by which something is ignored.
Igor · A male given name from Russian.Ii · A surname from Japanese.Ike · A diminutive of the male given name Isaac.