Belittle vs Ignore - What's the difference?
belittle | ignore |
To knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is.
* {{quote-book, year=2006
, author=Mark Steyn
, title=America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It
, chapter=9
, isbn=0895260786
, page=201
, passage=Under the rules as understood by the New York Times'', the West is free to mock and belittle''' its Judeo-Christian inheritance, and, likewise, the Muslim world is free to mock and ' belittle the West's Judeo-Christian inheritance.}}
To deliberately pay no attention to.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=
, volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (obsolete) Fail to notice.
As verbs the difference between belittle and ignore
is that belittle is to knowingly say that something is smaller or less important than it actually is while ignore is .belittle
English
Verb
(belittl)See also
* disparage * denigrate * vilipendignore
English
Verb
(ignor)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored , effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools