Ignore vs Neglect - What's the difference?
ignore | neglect |
To deliberately pay no attention to.
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, title= (obsolete) Fail to notice.
(label) To fail to care for or attend to something.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
(label) To omit to notice; to forbear to treat with attention or respect; to slight.
(label) To fail to do or carry out something due to oversight or carelessness.
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, title= The act of neglecting.
The state of being neglected.
Habitual lack of care.
Neglect is a synonym of ignore.
As verbs the difference between ignore and neglect
is that ignore is to deliberately pay no attention to while neglect is to fail to care for or attend to something.As a noun neglect is
the act of neglecting.ignore
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
Synonyms
* misheed * neglect * turn a blind eye * unmind * unheedAntonyms
* notice * recognize * watchDerived terms
* ignorableExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----neglect
English
Verb
(en verb)- I hope / My absence doth neglect no great designs.
- This, my long suffering and my day of grace, / Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste.
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.