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Ignored vs Overlooked - What's the difference?

ignored | overlooked |

As verbs the difference between ignored and overlooked

is that ignored is past tense of ignore while overlooked is past tense of overlook.

As an adjective overlooked is

missed, unnoticed.

ignored

English

Verb

(head)
  • (ignore)

    • Anagrams

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    ignore

    English

    Verb

    (ignor)
  • To deliberately pay no attention to.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored , effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • (obsolete) Fail to notice.

    • Synonyms

    * misheed * neglect * turn a blind eye * unmind * unheed

    Antonyms

    * notice * recognize * watch

    Derived terms

    * ignorable

    Related terms

    * ignorance * ignorant

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    overlooked

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Missed, unnoticed.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (overlook)

    • Anagrams

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