| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_to-intentionally-not-give-someone-or-something-any-attention |
| 释义 | to intentionally not give someone or something any attentionThese words all refer to intentionally not giving a person or thing your attention. One of the most common words for this, and the word with the broadest meaning, is ignore. Ignore can be used especially to refer to not listening to someone or something. The buzzing is irritating, but try to ignore it. Until you can speak calmly, I'm ignoring you. Officials ignored warnings from cybersecurity experts about the instability of the electricity supply. The minute she walked into the room, he turned his back on her and ignored her. One opposite of ignore is listen. Listen is often followed by to. We listened to his concerns carefully. Don't turn off the radio - I'm listening. If you'd listened to my advice, you wouldn't be in debt. For more opposites of ignore, see the article at listen. Disregard can be used when someone decides not to listen to things like instructions, advice, or warnings that are told to them. He disregarded the advice of his doctor and went back to work. The opposite of disregard is heed. Heed is more formal than disregard is. Travellers would do well to heed all travel warnings from the government. The phrases turn a blind eye to something, close your eyes to something, and shut your eyes to something can be used when someone ignores something bad and pretends it is not happening. The phrases turn a blind eye to and close your eyes to are slightly more formal than shut your eyes to. Until now, the mayor has turned a blind eye to the city's homelessness problem. The administration closed its eyes to human-rights abuses by its soldiers. He shut his eyes to the problem and pretended that everything was fine. If you turn a deaf ear to something, especially a request or a complaint, you ignore it. The emperor turned a deaf ear to their cries for mercy. The warden turned a deaf ear to prisoner complaints. Be carefulSome people find the phrases turn a blind eye to and turn a deaf ear offensive to people with disabilities. Use ignore instead. If you close your ears to something, you stop listening to it and ignore it. He closed his ears to all criticism of his novels. In informal US English, if you tune someone or something out, you do not give your attention to it. Tune out is generally used to refer to unpleasant things, and especially sounds. USWhen he starts ranting about politics, I just tune him out. USWe live so near the airport that I have completely tuned out the sound of planes landing and taking off. If you ignore or avoid something regularly, you could use the verb shun. As assistant to the president, he shunned the spotlight, but worked very hard behind the scenes. The phrase give someone the cold shoulder can be used when someone ignores a person in an unfriendly way. You can also use the verb cold-shoulder. I said hello to him and he just gave me the cold shoulder. She was cold-shouldered by her former friends. If you ignore a person, and your ignoring them insults them, you can use the verbs snub or slight. Slight is more formal than snub. She was snubbed once again by the Academy Awards nominating committee. I didn't mean to snub him - I genuinely didn't see him come into the room. She felt very slighted by her boss when he didn't include her in the company-wide email. Neglect is a verb that has a related meaning to ignore. Neglect refers to ignoring something, but often unintentionally or because you were busy doing something else. I neglected to water the plants and now they're dead. |
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