ignores
Pays no heed
Ignores is the third-person singular of ignore, meaning to deliberately pay no attention to something or act as if it doesn't exist.
Someone ignores advice, ignores warnings, or ignores a person trying to get their attention: She ignores his texts.
The word implies awareness followed by dismissal—you can only ignore what you've noticed.
Terminates or rejects
- overlooksMisses or surveys
- neglectsFails to care for
- bypassesGoes around instead
- snubsIntentional social rejections
shuns · discounts · sidelines · rejects · excludes · omits · avoids · skips
Misses or surveys
- missesFails to connect
- unheededIgnored after being given
- unnoticedNot perceived by anyone
- unobservedNot being watched
Lacking any awareness
- unawareLacking knowledge of something
- cluelessLacking any understanding
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
- unsuspectingNot anticipating danger
insensible · uninformed · naïve · innocent · unenlightened · uncomprehending · unmindful · heedless
Feeling no worry
- unmovedNot stirred physically/emotionally
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
- nonchalantCalmly unconcerned
detached · aloof · disinterested · impassive · blasé · stoic · unimpressed · unenthused
dismisses
Terminates or rejects
snubs · shuns · discounts · sidelines · rejects · excludes · omits · avoids · skips · evades
overlooks
Misses or surveys
oblivious
Lacking any awareness
- unawareLacking knowledge of something
- cluelessLacking any understanding
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
unsuspecting · insensible · uninformed · naïve · innocent · unenlightened · uncomprehending · unmindful · heedless
unconcerned
Feeling no worry
- unmovedNot stirred physically/emotionally
- unresponsiveFailing to react or reply
- apatheticWithout feeling or concern
nonchalant · detached · aloof · disinterested · impassive · blasé · stoic · unimpressed · unenthused · tepid
- verbsjump, be, speak, wait, do
- leaving outomits, skips, excludes, bypasses, passes over
- oversimplificationgeneralizes, stereotypes, reduces, reductive, essentializes
- evasionevasion, avoiding, avoids, evade, dodging
ignoresnotices
Perceives or announcements
heeds · attends to · observes · watches · regards
ignoresacknowledges
Confirms awareness of something
recognizes · addresses · greets · answers · validates
- ignorance is blissNot knowing protects happiness
- blissful ignorance
- willful ignorancePurposely remaining uninformed
- ignored warningsNotices not acted upon
- willfully ignorant
- feign ignoranceFake lack of knowledge
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