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Overlooked vs Ignore - What's the difference?

overlooked | ignore |

As verbs the difference between overlooked and ignore

is that overlooked is past tense of overlook while ignore is to deliberately pay no attention to.

As an adjective overlooked

is missed, unnoticed.

overlooked

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Missed, unnoticed.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (overlook)

    • 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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