Ignore vs Shun - What's the difference?
ignore | shun |
To deliberately pay no attention to.
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, volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (obsolete) Fail to notice.
To avoid, especially persistently.
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, title= To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
To screen, hide.
To shove, push.
As verbs the difference between ignore and shun
is that ignore is to deliberately pay no attention to while shun is to avoid, especially persistently.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
* ----shun
English
Verb
(shunn)Keeping the mighty honest, passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}