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Reject vs Ignore - What's the difference?

reject | ignore |

As verbs the difference between reject and ignore

is that reject is to refuse to accept while ignore is to deliberately pay no attention to.

As a noun reject

is something that is rejected.

reject

English

(wikipedia reject)

Verb

(en verb)
  • To refuse to accept.
  • *
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  • (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
  • Synonyms

    * (refuse to accept) decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, deny

    Antonyms

    * (refuse to accept) accept, take up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is rejected.
  • An unpopular person.
  • Synonyms

    * (something that is rejected) castaway * (an unpopular person) outcast, castaway, alien

    ignore

    English

    Verb

    (ignor)
  • To deliberately pay no attention to.
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  • , 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

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