Disregard

Definition: Disregard

Disregard

Noun

1. Lack of attention and due care.

2. Lack of care and attention.

3. Letting pass without notice.

Verb

1. Refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting".

2. Bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances".

3. Give little or no attention to; "Disregard the errors".

Date "disregard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Disregard

Synonyms: pretermission (n), brush aside (v), brush off (v), cut (v), discount (v), dismiss (v), ignore (v), neglect (v), push aside (v), snub (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Anachronism	Disregard of time, neglect of time, oblivion of time.
Contempt	Verb: despise, contemn, scorn, disdain, feel contempt for, view with a scornful eye; disregard, slight, not mind; pass by; (neglect).
Disrespect	Verb: hold in disrespect; (despise); misprize, disregard, slight, trifle with, set at naught, pass by, push aside, overlook, turn one's back upon, laugh in one's sleeve; be disrespectful; Adjective:, be discourteous; treat with disrespect;Noun: set down, put down, browbeat.
Excitability	Bear the brunt, bear well; go through, support, endure, brave, disregard.
Inattention	Verb: be inattentive; Adjective: overlook, disregard; pass by; (neglect) not observe; think little of.
	Noun: inattention, inconsideration; inconsiderateness; Adjective: oversight; inadvertence, inadvertency, nonobservance, disregard.
Insensibility	Verb: be insensible; Adjective: have a rhinoceros hide; show insensibility; Noun: not mind, not care, not be affected by; have no desire for; have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in; nil admirari; not care a straw; (unimportance) for; disregard; (neglect); set at naught; (make light of); turn a deaf ear to; (inattention); vegetate.
Neglect	Overlook, disregard; pass over, pas by; let pass; blink; wink at, connive at;gloss over; take no note of, take no thought of, take no account of, take no notice of; pay no regard to; laisser aller.
Stealing	Disregard the distinction between meum and tuum.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense to disregard its own faeces. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) If they want to disregard two hundred years of human bing-bang, that's their privilege. (Brigadoon; writing credit: Alan Jay Lerner) Two percent of everything people disregard, disbelieve and secretly hope is real. (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) You disregard His sacrifice. (How Green Was My Valley; writing credit: Richard Llewellyn; Philip Dunne)
Lyrics	A Summer's Disregard, (Man In The Mirror; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard)
Movie/TV Titles	Reckless Disregard (1985)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Conquest Continued: Disregard for Human and Indigenous Rights in the Mexican State of Chiapas (reference) Disregard of the Corporate Fiction and Allied Corporation Problems (reference) Love, Laughter, & A High Disregard for Statistics (reference) Strong Arts, Strong Schools: The Promising Potential and Shortsighted Disregard of the Arts in American Schooling (reference) Textual Fidelity and Textual Disregard (American University Studies. Series Iii, Comparative Literature, Vol 33) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Reckless Disregard (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	An Absolute Disregard For The Common Compilation (reference) Please Disregard This Form (reference) The Disregard of Timekeeping (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Obverse of a Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to Chief Water Tender Peter Tomich for "extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety" as USS Utah (AG-16) was sinking during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. See Photo # NH 95031-KN for a view of the reverse of this medal. Credit: NAVY.		Reverse of a Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to Chief Water Tender Peter Tomich for "extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety" as USS Utah (AG-16) was sinking during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. See Photo # NH 95030-KN for a view of the obverse of this medal. Credit: NAVY.
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Author	Quotation
Cicero	To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but shameless.
Vincent Van Gogh	Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Should any Member of the League resort to war in disregard of its covenants under Articles 12, 13, or 15, it shall ipso facto be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other Members of the League, which hereby undertake immediately to subject it to the severance of all trade or financial relations, the prohibition of all intercourse between their nations and the nationals of the covenant-breaking State, and the prevention of all financial, commercial, or personal intercourse between the nationals of the covenant-breaking State and the nationals of any other State, whether a Member of the League or not. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		In Brazil most of the cargo is transported by truck (62%), this is mainly due to incentives offered by the government to this subsector in the past and in part because of the government's disregard for alternative modes. (references)
Children	Congo	There were no documented cases in which security agents or others targeted children for specific abuse, although children were affected by the same generalized social disorder and widespread disregard for human rights that impact society as a whole. (references)
	Thailand	The law requires that private firms hire 1 person with a disability for every 200 other workers or contribute to a fund that benefits persons with disabilities, but this provision has not been enforced since it came into effect in 1991. Government officials estimated that 30 percent of firms disregard the law. (references)
Civil Liberties	Burma	The Chairman reportedly stated that the Government told him to disregard the regional authority's directive and to continue with normal operations. (references)
Economic History	Burma	Given the junta's disregard for education, it will be impossible for Burma to compete with other modern economies. (references)
	Liberia	But because of the corrupt nature of the Liberian Government and its disregard for human rights, foreign assistance to Liberia has declined drastically. (references)
	Zimbabwe	Credible reports surfaced of widespread violence and disregard for human rights by the security forces during these operations, and the level of political tension rose in the country as a result. (references)
Human Rights	Peru	However, the authorities often disregard this requirement. (references)
	Libya	Security agencies often disregard the legal requirement to obtain warrants before entering a private home. (references)
	Guatemala	The Constitution provides for the inviolability of home, correspondence, and private documents; however, allegations persist that the authorities sometimes disregard these provisions. (references)
Political Economy	Mexico	Corruption, inefficiency, impunity, disregard of the law, and lack of training are major problems. (references)
	Afghanistan	Reports from refugees and others indicate there was widespread disregard for and abuse of internationally recognized worker rights. (references)
	Tunisia	While observers agree that the outcome of the 1999 elections generally reflected the will of the electorate, the campaign and election processes greatly favored the ruling party, and there was wide disregard for the secrecy of the vote. (references)
Political Rights	Tunisia	Observers agree that the outcome of the presidential and legislative elections generally reflected the will of the electorate; however, the campaign and election processes greatly favored the ruling party and there was widespread disregard for the secrecy of the ballot. (references)
Trade	Uzbekistan	The fact that the state-owned Uzbek airlines shows pirated U.S. films in flights to the United States and elsewhere is emblematic of the government's disregard for intellectual property rights. (references)
Worker Rights	Burma	Sources working with refugees among ethnic groups in Thailand also reported increased forced porterage during the last three months of the year and widespread disregard for the ban on forced labor. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	URBANITY, n. The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others. The owner of a powder mill Was musing on a distant hill -- Something his mind foreboded -- When from the cloudless sky there fell A deviled human kidney! Well, The man's mill had exploded. His hat he lifted from his head; "I beg your pardon, sir," he said; "I didn't know 'twas loaded." Swatkin
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	I constantly hoped that it would have been much earlier in my power, consistently with motives which I was not at liberty to disregard to return to that retirement from which I had been reluctantly drawn.
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	If an appropriation shall not be made by the French Chambers at their next session, it may justly be concluded that the Government of France has finally determined to disregard its own solemn undertaking and refuse to pay an acknowledged debt.
Grover Cleveland	1885-1889; 1893-1897	Closely related to the exaggerated confidence in our country's greatness which tends to a disregard of the rules of national safety, another danger confronts us not less serious.
Herbert C. Hoover	1929-1933	The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Disregard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 56.08% of the time. "Disregard" is used about 444 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	56.08%	249	18,850
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	35.59%	158	24,965
Lexical Verb (base form)	8.33%	37	56,631
Total	100.00%	444	N/A

Expressions using "disregard": disregard of time ♦ disregard the distinction between meum and tuum ♦ disregard the rule ♦ disregard utterly. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "disregard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shpërfillje (nonchalance), shpërfill (contemn, neglect, pass by, slight), shkujdesje (carelessness, ease, improvidence, inadvertence, inadvertency, insouciance, laxity, lightness, negligence, thoughtlessness, unconcern, untidiness), nuk vë re (look over, Miss, overlook, overpass, pass by, pass over, pretermit), nuk tregoj kujdes, nuk përfill (flout), nuk marr parasysh (ignore, waive), nënvleftësoj (belittle, underestimate, underrate, undervalue), nënvleftësim (disparagement), mospërfillje (carelessness, coldness, contempt, disinterest, indifference, insouciance, neglect, negligence, nonchalance, slight, slur, snub). (various references)

Arabic		‏تغاضى (condone, connive, excuse, forget, look over, overlook, part with, pass, pass over, slur, wink), ‏تجاهل (cut, eliminate, ignore, ignoring, inattention, neglect, overlooking, override, passing over, slight, slighting, wink at), ‏إهمال (default, delinquency, dereliction, easiness, forgetfulness, fribble, frowst, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, inattentiveness, limbo, malpractice, neglect, negligence, omission, overlooking, remissive, remissness, slovenliness), ‏إستخفاف (neglect, underestimation), ‏إستخف (belittle, despise, disesteem, disparage, neglect, pass over, pooh pooh, slight, talk down, trifle with, underestimate, undervalue), ‏أهمل (be negligent, default, desert, discount, forsake, go by the board, lapse, lay aside, lay by, leave out, neglect, omit, overlook, pass, pass over smth., scorn, set apart, skive, slight, throwaway). (various references)

Bulgarian		равнодушие (apathy, indifference, insusceptibility, listlessness, nonchalance, tepidity, unconcern, vacancy), незачитане (defiance, impiety, inconsideration, oblivion, slight), не обръщам внимание на (forget, ignore, neglect, push aside, put away, shuck), абстрахирам се (prescind), пренебрегвам (flaunt, flout, ignore, laugh at, lay aside, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, pretermit, put by, shrug off, sink, sit on, slight, wave aside, wave away), пренебрежение (depreciation, dispraise, flout, slight). (various references)

Chinese		置之度外 , 拚 (pat, reject, stake all), � 视, 不問 (ignore, let go unpunished, let off, pay no attention to). (various references)

Czech		pohrdat (defy, despise, disdain), pohrdání (contempt, disdain, scorn), přehlížet (condone, look over, override, parade), přehlížení, nevšímavost (oblivion), nevšímat si (ignore), nevážnost, nedbat èeho, nedbání, nebrat v úvahu (ignore, waive), bezohlednost (lack of consideration, recklessness, thoughtlessness). (various references)

Danish		uretmaessig produktion (tonnages produced in disregard of decisions). (various references)

Dutch		ongeoorloofde produktie (tonnages produced in disregard of decisions). (various references)

Farsi		نادیده گرفتن (Dissemble), عدم رعایت (Disrespect), اعتنانکردن . (various references)

Finnish		olla välittämättä jostakin, jättää huomioon ottamatta (ignore, pay no attention to). (various references)

French		ne tenir aucune compte, ne pas s'occuper de, ne pas faire attention, négliger, négligence, mépriser (disdain, dispise), mépris (disdain), méconnaître. (various references)

German		sich hinwegsetzen über (dismiss, overcome, override, to defy), missachtung (contempt, disdain, disrespect, flouting), missachten (despise, disdain, flout, ignore, to disobey, to disregard), ignorieren (ignore, leave out of account, slight, to ignore), gleichgültigkeit (apathy, casualness, detachment, halfheartedness, indifference, languidness, phlegm, unconcern), geringschätzen (despise, have a low opinion of, have scant regard for, place little value on, set little store by, think little of), außer acht lassen (set aside, waive). (various references)

Greek		αμέλεια (default, neglect, neglectfulness, negligence, perfunctoriness, remissness). (various references)

Hebrew		לזלזל (decry, degrade, despise, disparage, look down on, slight, talk down, underrate), ל�"תעלם (ignore, neglect, overlook, override, pass over, vanish), זלזול (contempt, derision, disparagement, disrespect, flippancy, irreverence, negligence, scorn), �"תעלמות (disappearance, estrangement, oblivion, obliviousness, overlooking, oversight, skip). (various references)

Hungarian		semmibe vevés (contempt), fitymálás. (various references)

Indonesian		menginjak-injak (be disrespectful of, disobey), mengabaikan (ignore, void), acuh tak acuh (perfunction, plegm). (various references)

Italian		trascurare (disdain, disobey, ignore, neglect, omit, overlook, skip). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		閑却 (negligence), 等閑 (make light of, neglect, negligence), 無視 (ignore). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なおざり (make light of, neglect, negligence), か�"きゃく (audience, negligence, spectator), むし (baseball with no outs, ignore, insect, selflessness, steaming, the remote beginnings, unselfish), とうか�" (bitter cold, frost, mailing, make light of, neglect, negligence, posting, supervision, supervisor, sweating while sleeping). (various references)

Korean		무시 (Disregarding, Neglecting, overriding). (various references)

Manx		neuscansh (disesteem, unimportance), neuarrym (insolence), jannoo beggan jeh (gloze, pooh-pooh). (various references)

Norwegian		ignorering. (various references)

Pig Latin		isregardday

Portuguese		disquisitivo, desprezo (contempt, disdain, pish, scorn), desdém (abhorrence, contempt, disdain, scorn), descuido (default, dereliction, inadvertency, inadvertent, lapse, neglect, negligence, oversight, slip up), desconsiderar (disconsolate, discredit, disrespectful, offend), negligenciar (default, forget, neglect, omit, overlooker, put by), negligência (barratry, default, East, inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention, incurious, lapse, neglect, negligence, omissions excepted), ignorar (bypass, dissembler, ignore, leave this matter, turn a blind eye to). (various references)

Romanian		dispreţ (contempt, despite, disdain, flout, haughtiness, odium, scorn, spurn), desconsidera (despise, disobey, neglect, slight), nu lua în considerare (let alone), nesocoti (ignore, leave, overrule, pass by, pass over, scorn, sneeze, trample on, undervalue), nepãsare (apathy, carelessness, casualness, indifference, laxity, listlessness, negligence, nonchalance, recklessness, remissness, sloth, unconcern), indiferenţã (apathy, carelessness, coldness, coolness, detachment, equanimity, frigidity, indifference, insensibility, listlessness, nonchalance, phlegm, recklessness, regardlessness, remissness, sloth, torpor, unconcern). (various references)

Russian		игнорировать (cut ~ dead, defy, dissemble, eliminate, ignore). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zanemariti (ignore, neglect), nepažnja (inadvertence, inadvertency, inattention), ne obazirati se (overlook). (various references)

Spanish		desatender (disdain, disobey, ignore, neglect). (various references)

Swedish		förakt (contempt, disdain, scorn). (various references)

Turkish		umursamama (indifference), takmamak (be disregardful of, flout, fly in the face of, leave off, not to attach, piss on smth.), takmama, saymamak (bar, count out, disallow, disrespect, leave out of account, not to count, not to take into account, overlook, take no account of), saymama, saygısızlık etmek (disesteem, disrespect, slight), ihmal etmek (be careless, be disregardful of, default on, fail, forget, leave out, let things slide, neglect, omit, slight), ihmal (carelessness, criminal neglect, delinquency, failure, forgetfulness, inattention, neglect, negligence, omission, remissness, shortcoming), hiçe saymak (challenge, pay no attention, set at naught, set at nought, slight, snap one's fingers at, spurn, swamp, upstage), aldırmamak (be unmindful of, close one's eyes to, ignore, neglect, not to mind, pass by, pass over, pay no attention, shelve), önemsememek (be oblivious to, close one's eyes to, coquet, discount, have a low opinion of, ignore, make light of, make little of, make nothing of, not to care twopence for, pay no attention, piss on smth., play down, play it low down, set at naught, set at nought, slight, slur over, toy, treat smb. like dirt, trifle, trifle with), önemsememe (slight). (various references)

Ukrainian		ігнорувати (balk, brush aside, defy, dissemble, eliminate, ignore, neglect, overjump, overleap, overlook), ігнорування (ignoration), неувага (inattention, neglect), зневажати (cold shoulder, невимушенІсть [f], desecrate, despise, disdain, ignore, misprise, misprize, neglect, overlook, override, scorn, scout, spit, violate). (various references)

Welsh		diystyru (despise). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	conculca, conculcabas, conculcabat, conculcabatur, conculcabimus, conculcabis, conculcabit, conculcabitur, conculcabunt, conculcans, conculcantes, conculcare, conculcarent, conculcari, conculcastis, conculcata, conculcatam, conculcati, conculcatum, conculcaverit, conculcaverunt, conculcavi, conculcavit, conculcem, conculcent, conculcet, conculcetur, contemptio, contemptu, contemptui, contemptum, contemptus, ignorabam, ignorabant, ignorabat, ignorabatis, ignorabis, ignorabit, ignorabo, ignoramus, ignorans, ignorant, ignorante, ignorantem, ignorantes, ignorantia, ignorantibus, ignorare, ignorarent, ignoraretur, ignoras, ignorat, ignoratis, ignoratum, ignoratur, ignoraverit, ignoraverunt, ignoravi, ignoravit, ignorem, ignoremus, ignorent, ignores, ignoret, ignoretur, ignoro, miseram, miserant, miserat, miserim, miseris, miserit, miseritis, miseritque, misero, miserunt, miseruntque, misi, misimus, misique, misissem, misissent, misisset, misisti, misistis, misit, misitque, missa, missae, missi, missis, misso, missum, missurus, missus, mittam, mittamus, mittant, mittantur, mittas, mittat, mittatis, mittatur, mitte, mittebam, mittebant, mittebantque, mittebantur, mittebat, mittebatque, mittemini, mittendas, mittendum, mittendus, mittens, mittensque, mittent, mittentem, mittentes, mittentis, mittentur, mittere, mitterem, mitterent, mitteret, mitteretur, mitteris, mittes, mittet, mittetis, mittetur, mitti, mittimus, mittis, mittit, mittite, mittitur, mitto, mittoque, mittunt, mittuntur, omiserunt, omisi, omisso, omittat, omittens, omittere, praetereat, praetereunte, praetereuntem, praetereuntes, praetereuntibus, praeteribant, praeteribis, praeteribit, praeteribo, praeteriens, praeterient, praeterierint, praeterieris, praeterierit, praeterieritis, praeterierunt, praeteriet, praeterii, praeteriit, praeterire, praeteriret, praeterissent, praeterisset, praeterit, praeterita, praeteriti, praeteritis, praeterito, praeteritum, praeterivi, praeterivit, sephon. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	tarôidîti. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "disregard": disregarded, disregardful, disregarding, disregards. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Disregard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Diergaardt, diregard, disreguard. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "disregard" (pronounced di'srigÄ"rd)
4	-g Ä" r d	guard, regard.
3	-Ä" r d	bard, barred, bombard, canard, card, Chard, charred, disbarred, discard, Gabbard, hard, jarred, lard, marred, nard, retard, scarred, shard, sparred, starred, sward, tarred, yard.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-g-i-r-r-s"
	-1 letter: gridders.
	-2 letters: gadders, girders, graders, gridder, raiders, regards, ridders.
	-3 letters: adders, aiders, airers, arider, darers, deairs, derris, dirges, dreads, drears, driers, gadder, gaddis, gadids, garred, girded, girder, graded, grader, grades, grided, grides, irades, raided, raider, raised, raiser, readds, redias, regard, rerigs, resaid, ridder, riders, ridged, ridges, sadder, sagier, sierra, sirdar.
	-4 letters: adder, aegis, agers.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-g-i-r-r-s"
	+1 letter: disregards.
	+2 letters: disarranged, disregarded, drawbridges, tardigrades.
	+3 letters: disregardful, disregarding, readdressing.
	+4 letters: predischarged.
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