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Ignore

Definitions: Ignore

Ignore

Verb

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

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

3. Fail to notice.

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

5. Be ignorant of or in the dark about.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ignore" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Note: Ignore \Ig*nore"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Ignored; present participle verb or noun Ignoring.]. (Websters 1913)



Specialty Definitions: Ignore

DomainDefinitions

Aerospace

In computer terminology, a code group or character which indicates that the associated information is to be disregarded. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Ignore

Synonyms: brush aside (v), brush off (v), cut (v), discount (v), dismiss (v), disregard (v), neglect (v), push aside (v), snub (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: know (v), notice (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ignore

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Abrogation

Disclaim; (deny); ignore, repudiate; recant; divest oneself, break off.

Concealment

Keep from; keep back, keep to oneself; keep snug, keep close, keep secret, keep dark; bury; sink, suppress; keep from, keep from out of view, keep from out of sight; keep in the shade, throw into the shade, throw into background; stifle, hush up, smother, withhold, reserve; fence with a question; ignore.

Ignorance

Ignore, be blind to; keep in ignorance; (conceal).

Illegality

Verb: offend against the law; violate the law, infringe the law, break the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands.

Incredulity

Verb: be incredulous; Adjective: distrust; (disbelieve); refuse to believe; shut one's eyes to, shut one's ears to; turn a deaf ear to; hold aloof, ignore, nullis jurare in verba magistri.

Negation

Repudiate; set aside, ignore; rebut; (confute); qualify; refuse.

Neglect

Slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; table; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to; not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget; be caught napping; (not expect); leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet.

Nonobservance

Verb: fail, neglect, omit, elude, evade, give the go-by to, set aside, ignore; shut one's eyes to, close one's eyes to.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ignore

English words defined with "ignore": aptdisoblige, disposedgivenIgnoringmindedOverjumpself-defeatingtending, To reckon without one's hostunconscientiousness. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ignore": Alternating bit protocolFriendGenealogical Tree, Genius From Mars Techniqueignore someone, interrupt priority levelJesterkill fileMagnifying-glassprecedence lossage, PrecedentReading Habits, Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, ReligionTagged Image File Format, tariff, Teeth, throwaway account, to ignore a loop portion, to ignore deleted recordsVow. (references)
Etymologies containing "ignore": IGNORAMUS. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Ignore" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (leave), French (ignore).

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Modern Usage: Ignore

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Ignore her. She's drunk. (Four Weddings and a Funeral; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

You taught us to ignore pain, right? (Rambo III; writing credit: Sylvester Stallone)

Just ignore her. (The Cosby Show; writing credit: Bob Shayne)

The pants command me! Do not ignore my veins! (Invader ZIM; writing credit: Carel Donck)

Don't stop for lunch: be ahead of your competitor. The Billows Feeding Machine will eliminate the lunch hour, increase your production, and decrease your overhead. Allow us to point out some of the features of this wonderful machine: its beautiful, aerodynamic, streamlined body; its smoothness of action, made silent by our electro-porous metal ball bearings. Let us acquaint you with our automaton soup plate -- its compressed-air blower, no breath necessary, no energy required to cool the soup. Notice the revolving plate with the automatic food pusher. Observe our counter-shaft, double-knee-action corn feeder, with its synchro-mesh transmission, which enables you to shift from high to low gear by the mere tip of the tongue. Then there is the hydro-compressed, sterilized mouth wiper: its factors of control insure against spots on the shirt front. These are but a few of the delightful features of the Billows Feeding Machine. Let us demonstrate with one of your workers, for actions speak louder than words. Remember, if you wish to keep ahead of your competitor, you cannot afford to ignore the importance of the Billows Feeding Machine. (Modern Times; writing credit: Charles Chaplin)

Lyrics

I just ignore it, but they keep saying ("Something to Talk About"; performing artist: Bonnie Raitt)

In numbers too big to ignore ("I Am Woman"; performing artist: Helen Reddy)

You must try to ignore that it means more than that ("What's Love Got to Do With It"; performing artist: Tina Turner)

Clever

An error doesn't become a mistake until you choose to ignore it. (references; author: unknown)

Adolescence and snow are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. (references; author: unknown)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Ignore

DomainTitle

Books

  • 17 Laws of Successful Investing: Ignore Them at Your Own Risk (reference)

  • AIDS in Africa: Help the Victims or Ignore Them (reference)

  • Ignore Price (reference)

  • Invisible Walls: Why We Ignore the Damage We Inflict on the Planet . . . and Ourselves (reference)

  • Know Your Limits--Then Ignore Them (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Ignore

AuthorQuotation

Earl Wilson

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.

Frank Lloyd Wright

If you foolishly ignore beauty, you'll soon find yourself without it. Your life will be improverished. But if you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Karl Von Clausewitz

It is waste -- and worse than a waste -- of effort to ignore the element of brutality because of the repugnance it excites.

Sophocles

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Ignore

AuthorDateQuotation

Winston S. Churchill

1946

To reject it or ignore it or fritter it away will bring upon us all the long reproaches of the after-time. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Ignore

TitleAuthorQuote

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Life, said Marvin dolefully, "loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

This great need of man, the finite, which admits of embrace, they ignore.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ignore

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Do not ignore the urge to have a bowel movement. (references)

Most health care professionals ignore urinary incontinence and do not provide adequate diagnosis and treatment. (references)

People who ignore the urge to have a bowel movement may eventually stop feeling the urge, which can lead to constipation. (references)

Business

Customs officials have discretionary authority to ignore the invoice or transaction price as the principal basis for valuation. (references)

From representative offices to research facilities, American firms increasingly find the Chinese information appliance market too promising to ignore. (references)

This possibility may be of interest to foreign pharmaceutical wholesalers, while foreign manufacturers rather tend to ignore this market access possibility. (references)

Children

Algeria

Public enterprises, in downsizing the work force, generally ignore a law that requires that they reserve 1 percent of their jobs for persons with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Djibouti

Although Islam is the state religion, the Government imposes no sanctions on those who choose to ignore Islamic teachings, or practice other faiths. (references)

China

Another regulation requires Internet cafe patrons to register with "software managers" and produce a valid ID card to log on. Throughout the country, diplomats have observed that most Internet cafe users ignore these regulations. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

U.S. firms wishing to sell in the Brazilian market should not ignore advertising in these trade publications. (references)

China

Even when the courts do attempt to enforce a decision, local officials often ignore court decisions with impunity. (references)

Nicaragua

Despite the code's provisions for streamlining the mediation process, some unions ignore them when initiating a strike. (references)

Human Rights

Iraq

The Government continued to ignore these requests. (references)

Guinea

Police and paramilitary police often ignore legal procedures in the pursuit of criminals. (references)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Allegedly, guards also supply drugs and other contraband or ignore abuse of prisoners by other inmates. (references)

Minorities

Yugoslavia

Local authorities often ignore or condone societal intimidation of the Romani community. (references)

Political Economy

BANGLADESH

In most cases, private sector employers ignore this wage structure. (references)

Syria

Their members often ignore the rights of suspects and detainees and commit serious human rights violations. (references)

Political Rights

Egypt

Both the Committee and the People's Assembly at times ignore court decisions. (references)

Women

Kyrgyz Republic

The authorities often ignore such attacks. (references)

Lebanon

In most of the cases, the police ignore complaints submitted by battered or abused women. (references)

Worker Rights

Cote d'Ivoire

According to Dignite, labor inspectors continue to ignore this clear violation of the law. (references)

Togo

However, the Ministry of Labor's enforcement is weak, and employers often ignore these provisions. (references)

Malta

In practice a striking union can ignore an unfavorable decision of the Industrial Tribunal by continuing the strike on other grounds. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer. The Enemy of Human Souls Sat grieving at the cost of coals; For Hell had been annexed of late, And was a sovereign Southern State. "It were no more than right," said he, "That I should get my fuel free. The duty, neither just nor wise, Compels me to economize -- Whereby my broilers, every one, Are execrably underdone. What would they have? -- although I yearn To do them nicely to a turn, I can't afford an honest heat. This tariff makes even devils cheat! I'm ruined, and my humble trade All rascals may at will invade: Beneath my nose the public press Outdoes me in sulphureousness; The bar ingeniously applies To my undoing my own lies; My medicines the doctors use (Albeit vainly) to refuse To me my fair and rightful prey And keep their own in shape to pay; The preachers by example teach What, scorning to perform, I teach; And statesmen, aping me, all make More promises than they can break. Against such competition I Lift up a disregarded cry. Since all ignore my just complaint, By Hokey-Pokey! I'll turn saint!" Now, the Republicans, who all Are saints, began at once to bawl Against his competition; so There was a devil of a go! They locked horns with him, tete-a-tete In acrimonious debate, Till Democrats, forlorn and lone, Had hopes of coming by their own. That evil to avert, in haste The two belligerents embraced; But since 'twere wicked to relax A tittle of the Sacred Tax, 'Twas finally agreed to grant The bold Insurgent-protestant A bounty on each soul that fell Into his ineffectual Hell. Edam Smith

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Ignore

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Lynne Cheney

Well, you know, the only thing worse than just ignoring it would be to not ignore it and to keep it going. So you just say, that's the way it goes.

Rush Limbaugh

Responsible corporations retain useless employees and give them raises and ignore the global competitive marketplace.

Tim McGraw

You just ignore it. You don't get used to it. Just kind of like critics. You just kind of ignore it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Ignore

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Harry S. Truman

1945-1953Neither do we propose, however, to ignore the ideals and vital interests of our friends.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969To ignore aggression now would only increase the danger of a much larger war.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981But job opportunity, the chance to earn a decent living, is also a basic human right, which we cannot and will not ignore.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Ignore

"Ignore" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 71.52% of the time. "Ignore" is used about 2,469 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)71.52%1,7664,774
Lexical Verb (base form)28.48%7039,512
                    Total100.00%2,469N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Ignore

Expressions using "ignore": ignore each other ignore the bill ignore the law to ignore a loop portion to ignore deleted records. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "ignore": impossible-to-ignore.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Ignore

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

ignore

29

ignore list

7

ignore yahoo

2

ignore more

2

ignore list yahoo

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ignore

Language Translations for "ignore"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaan

  

ignoreer (leave out of account). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

injoroj (blink, dissemble, pigeonhole, slight), nuk pranoj (decline, deny, differ, disapprove, disclaim, override, protest, push away, reject, relinquish, renounce, repudiate, set aside, spurn, throw off, thumb down), nuk marr parasysh (disregard, waive). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تجاهل (cut, disregard, eliminate, ignoring, inattention, neglect, overlooking, override, passing over, slight, slighting, wink at), ‏رفض (decline, defy, denial, denied, deny, disallow, disapproval, disapprove, dismiss, negate, negation, negative, nix, objection, odium, overrule, pass up, rebuff, refusal, refuse, reject, rejection, renouncement, repel, reprobate, repudiate, repudiation, repulse, scorn, set aside, throw out, throw over, toss, turn down). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

отхвърлям (abnegate, avoid, cast away, cast down, challenge, decline, demur, deny, disallow, disclaim, dismiss, except, exclude, fling away, kiss off, negative, override, proscribe, rebuff, rebut, refuse, refute, renounce, repudiate, scout, set aside, throw back, throw down, throw off, throw out, toss away, toss over, vote down, wash out, wave aside), не обръщам внимание на (disregard, forget, neglect, push aside, put away, shuck), пренебрегвам (disregard, flaunt, flout, laugh at, lay aside, neglect, overlook, overpass, pass over, pass up, pretermit, put by, shrug off, sink, sit on, slight, wave aside, wave away), игнорирам (blink, cold shoulder, cushion, overlook, set aside). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

忽視 (neglect), 忽略 (ignored, Ignoring, Neglected, Neglecting), 不理 (pay no attention to, refuse to acknowledge, take no notice of), 不問 (disregard, let go unpunished, let off, pay no attention to). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ignorovat (brush off, cold shoulder, ostracize, snub), neznat se, nevšímat si (disregard), nepozdravit, nedbat na (override, set aside), nebrat v úvahu (disregard, waive). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ignorering af en til en anden MS bestemt tildeling (ignore assignment for another MS), ignorere slettede poster (to ignore deleted records), ignorere en sløjfe (to ignore a loop portion, to skip a loop portion), forlade en sløjfe (to ignore a loop portion, to skip a loop portion). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

onder tafel schuiven (leave out of account), negeren (leave out of account). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

ignori. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نادیده پنداشتن , چشم پوشیدن (Relinquish), تجاهل کردن (Blink, Connive, Evade), ردکردن (Balk, Confute, Controvert, Decline, Deny, Disallow, Disapprove, Disavow, Disclaim, Disown, Disprove, Gainsay, Impugn, Overrule, Rebuff, Rebut, Refuse, Refute, Rejcet, Repel, Repudiate, Veto), بی اساس دانستن , برسمیت نشناختن . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

olla välittämättä (leave out of account). (various references)

   

French

  

ignorer (be ignorant, be ignorant of), bouder. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

negearje (leave out of account). (various references)

   

German

  

ignorieren (disregard, leave out of account, slight, to ignore), überhören (not hear). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αγνοώ (blink, pass over, unknowing). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תעלם (disregard, neglect, overlook, override, pass over, vanish), ל"ת כר (deny, estrange, neglect, renounce, repudiate). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nem vesz tudomásul (to ignore, to pass unmarked), mellõz (leave out, neglect), figyelmen kívül hagy (disregard, pass by, to leave out of consideration, to neglect, to pass by). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

mengabaikan (disregard, void), mendiamkan (keep quiet), melalaikan (be indifferent to, forsake), cupai, capak (slight, take lightly). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ignorare (be unaware of, disregard, ignore each other, not to know, pass by, pass over, shrug off, slight). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

黙殺 (shelve, smother, treat with silent contempt). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

むし (baseball with no outs, disregard, insect, selflessness, steaming, the remote beginnings, unselfish), もくさつ (shelve, smother, treat with silent contempt), けいし (brother and sister, capital, despise, execution, heir, heiress, metropolis, metropolitan police, neglect, old Kyoto, police superintendent, ruledpaper, slight, stepchild, successor). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

묵살하십시". (various references)

   

Malay

  

abai ... mengabaikan (leave out of account, underestimate). (various references)

   

Manx

  

lhiggey (act, act pretend, allow, broach, delay, discharge, fire, firing, go off, heave, let, let down, let off, letting, level, loose, permission, permit, pierce, remission, shoot, shoot up, shooting, slip, suffer, water pipe), ceau neu-hastey. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

ignorere, overse. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ignoreay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

ignorar (bypass, disregard, dissembler, leave this matter, turn a blind eye to), nãotomarconhecimento (leave out of account), não saber, não prestar atenção a (overlook), não instruído, não considerar, fingirignorar (leave out of account), desconhecer. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ignora (leave out of account). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

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

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ignorisati, zanemariti (disregard, neglect), oglušiti (become deaf). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

desentenderse de (leave out of account). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ignorera (disregard), bortse från (disregard, set aside). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทำเพิกเฉย. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

görmezlikten gelmek, delil yetersizliğinden reddetmek, boşlamak (let go, neglect, slacken), bilmezlikten gelmek, aldırmamak (be unmindful of, close one's eyes to, disregard, neglect, not to mind, pass by, pass over, pay no attention, shelve), önemsememek (be oblivious to, close one's eyes to, coquet, discount, disregard, have a low opinion of, 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), önem vermemek (be heedless of, hold cheap, make light of, make little of, not to care, think nothing of it). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

ігнорувати (balk, brush aside, defy, disregard, dissemble, eliminate, neglect, overjump, overleap, overlook), відхиляти (avert, challenge, divert, lead off, negative, non-concur, override, reject, repel, repudiate, ride over, swerve, turn aside), зневажати (cold shoulder, невимушенІсть [f], desecrate, despise, disdain, disregard, misprise, misprize, neglect, overlook, override, scorn, scout, spit, violate). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

anwybyddu. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Ignore

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

dissimulabat, dissimulante, dissimularet, dissimulata, dissimulaverit, dissimulavi, 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. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Ignore

Derivations

Words beginning with "ignore": ignored, ignorer, ignorers, ignores. (additional references)

Words ending with "ignore": signore. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Ignore" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dignare, Egmore, Girone, gnore, icnore, iggor, Ignarro, ignora, ignorre, ignose, igore, infore, ingor, ognore, Rignomer. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Ignore"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "ignore" (pronounced ignô"r)
3-n ô" rnor, snore.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Ignore

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: eringo, region.

Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-o-r"

-1 letter: genro, giron, goner, groin, irone, reign, renig.

-2 letters: ergo, gien, girn, giro, goer, gone, gore, grin, inro, iron, noir, nori, ogre, rein, ring.

-3 letters: ego, eng, eon, erg, ern, gen, gie, gin, gor, ion, ire, nog, nor, one, ore, reg, rei, rig, rin, roe.

-4 letters: en, er, go, in, ne, no, oe, on, or, re.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-o-r"
 

+1 letter: coreign, eringos, eroding, foreign, genitor, groined, ignored, ignorer, ignores, negroid, negroni, overing, perigon, pirogen, redoing, regions, signore, zeroing.

 

+2 letters: bowering, coercing, cognizer, cohering, coreigns, cosigner, covering, cowering, dowering, eloigner, encoring, enrobing, erigeron, eringoes, erogenic, florigen, forewing, forgiven, genitors, geraniol, gerontic, gorgerin, goriness, gueridon, homering, hovering, ignorers, ligroine, lowering, negroids, negronis, neighbor, nitrogen, ochering, offering, orangier, ordering, organdie, organise, organize, orogenic, peignoir, perigons, powering, reboring, recoding, regional, religion, removing, reoiling, reposing, resoling, resowing, revoking, revoting, rezoning, ringbone, ringdove, rodeoing, rogueing, roweling, seignior, seignory, sobering, spongier, towering, vigneron, wingover, xeroxing.

 

+3 letters: aborigine, aragonite, aureoling, beworming, bioregion, bordering, bothering, brokering, censoring, cockering, coffering, cognizers, compering, concierge, configure, congeries, coopering, coppering, corbeling, cornering, corseting, coshering, cosigners, coverings, cryogenic, deforcing, deforming, dehorning, dehorting, deploring, deporting, desorbing, detouring, devouring, deworming, doddering, dogearing, egression, eloigners, enamoring, endoergic, endorsing, enforcing, engorging, enrolling, enrooting, ergonomic, erigerons, erotizing, escorting, escrowing, exergonic, exhorting, exploring, exporting, extorting, florigens, flowering, foddering, foredoing, foregoing, foreigner, foresting, forewings, fostering, frescoing, geraniols, gheraoing, girandole, glowering, goffering, goitrogen, gondolier, gorgerins, gorgonize, governing, grandiose, groveling, gueridons, hectoring, heroizing, hollering, ignorable, ignorance, jargonize, knowinger, koshering, legionary, ligroines, loitering, loppering, mentoring, misgovern, moldering, mongering, morganite, morseling, mothering, necrosing, neighbors, neighbour, neuroglia, nitrogens, nonsigner, observing, obverting, offerings, omnirange, operating, orangerie, orangiest, organdies, organised, organiser, organises, organized, organizer, organizes, organzine, orienting, originate, orogenies, overawing, overdoing, overlying, overnight, overswing, overusing, oystering, peignoirs, pondering, porringer, portering, pothering, pottering, powdering, precoding, progenies, progestin, pyrogenic, reasoning, reavowing, rebodying, reboiling, rebooking, rebooting, reckoning, recoaling, recocking, recognise, recognize, recoiling, recoinage, recoining, recombing, recooking, recopying, recording, recorking, recouping, redingote, redocking, redonning, reechoing, reevoking, reflowing, refolding, reforging, reforming, regionals, reglowing, regorging, regrowing, rehousing, rejoicing, rejoining, religions, reloading, reloaning, relocking, relooking, remolding, renowning, reopening, repolling, reporting, repotting, repouring, reprobing, reproving, rerolling, reroofing, rerouting, rescoring, reshoeing, reshowing, resoaking, resodding, resolving, resorbing, resorting, restoking, restoring, retooling, retorting, revoicing, revolting, revolving, rewording, reworking, ringbones, ringdoves, rocketing, roqueting, rowelling, sectoring, seigniors, seigniory, showering, signories, signorine, soldering, sortieing, sovereign, stereoing, subregion, tochering, tottering, troweling, ungodlier, vectoring, vignerons, wingovers, wondering, worsening.

 

+4 letters: aborigines, aggression, agrimonies, agronomies, androgenic, angiosperm, aragonites, archegonia, becrowding, begroaning, belaboring, bescouring, bestrowing, bethorning, betrothing, beworrying, bioregions, bolstering, boringness, broadening, broidering, brokerings, brothering, burgeoning, carcinogen, cariogenic, chirurgeon, choppering, chowdering, cinemagoer, clobbering, coarsening, cocreating, coderiving, coenduring, coerecting, coexerting, coinhering, commercing, compeering, concerning, concerting, concierges, concreting, conferring, configured, configures, congeneric, conquering, conserving, constringe, converging, conversing, converting, corbelings, corbelling, cordelling, corelating, correcting, corrigenda, countering, creolising, creolizing, creosoting, crocheting, croqueting, cryogenics, cryogenies, decoloring, decorating, decrowning, defrocking, defrosting, denigrator, deorbiting, derogating, derogation, designator, destroying, dethroning, digression, egocentric, egressions, electroing, embargoing, embowering, embroiling, embrowning, emigration, empowering, enamouring, endergonic, engrossing, enthroning, environing, epeirogeny, ergonomics, ergonomist, ergonovine, ergotamine, erotogenic, estrogenic, exorcising, exorcizing, fibrinogen, fingerhold, fingerpost, fishmonger, florigenic, folksinger, forbearing, forearming, foreboding, foredating, forefinger, foreigners, foreignism, foreseeing, forfeiting, forfending, forgetting, fosterling, foundering, garrisoned, generation, generosity, geocentric, gingerroot, girandoles, goitrogens, gondoliers, goniometer, goniometry, gorgonized, gorgonizes, gorinesses, gormandise, gormandize, gramineous, grindstone, grogginess, grovelling, growliness, guerdoning, hoarsening, holstering, iatrogenic, ignorances, imbowering, impowering, ingression, integrator, intergroup, interorgan, interrogee, invigorate, ironmonger, irreligion, jargonized, jargonizes, jeoparding, journeying, lobstering, longhaired, memorising, memorizing, mineralogy, misgoverns, moderating, mongrelize, morganites, morselling, mouldering, negotiator, neighbored, neighborly, neighbours, networking, neurogenic, neuroglial, neuroglias, neurologic, nonbearing, nonearning, nonreading, nonsigners, officering, omniranges, operagoing, oppressing, orangeries, organisers, organizers, organzines, originated, originates, orogenesis, orogenetic, outearning, outgrinned, outhearing, outreading, outserving, outwearing, overacting, overbaking, overbuying, overcoming, overcuring, overdaring, overdesign, overdosing, overdrying, overdyeing, overeating, overflying, overhating, overhoping, overhyping, overjoying, overlading, overlaying, overliving, overloving, overmining, overmixing, overnights, overpaying, overplying, overrating, overriding, overruling, oversaving, overseeing, oversewing, overswings, overtaking, overtaxing, overtiming, overtiring, overturing, overurging, overvoting, oysterings, performing, perigynous, perorating, peroxiding, pioneering, porringers, portending, preboiling, prebooking, precooking, precooling, preforming, premolding, preopening, prescoring, preshowing, presoaking, presorting, proceeding, processing, professing, proffering, progenitor, progestins, projecting, propelling, propending, prosecting, prospering, protecting, protending, protesting, proverbing, radiogenic, readopting, readorning, rearousing, reasonings, reblooming, reboarding, rebottling, rebounding, rechoosing, reckonings, reclothing, recognised, recognises, recognized, recognizer, recognizes, recoinages, recoloring, recordings, recounting, recoupling, recovering, recrossing, recrowning, redingotes, redoubling, redounding, reendowing, reenjoying, reexposing, refloating, reflooding, refocusing, refounding, refronting, regionally, reglossing, regression, regrooming, regrooving, regrouping, regulation, reignition, reimposing, reinvoking, rejoicings, relegation, relocating, remodeling, remounting, renouncing, renovating, reoffering, reopenings, reopposing, reordering, reorganize, repeopling, replotting, repositing, repowering, reshooting, resonating, resounding, responding, respotting, restocking, retouching, ringtosses, roistering, rosemaling, roughening, rouletting, roystering, saprogenic, sclerosing, scowdering, scroungier, seignorage, seignorial, seignories, shoestring, shortening, signiories, slobbering, smoldering, smothering, snookering, snorkeling, soberizing, soldiering, songwriter, sovereigns, sporogenic, stoppering, stringendo, subregions, theorising, theorizing, tolerating, tormenting, torpedoing, torrefying, tourneying, toweringly, trichogyne, trolleying, trowelling, tutoyering, uncovering, underdoing, undergoing, unforgiven, urogenital, vouchering, winegrower, workingmen.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ignore


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 67 6E 6F 72 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

=

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    --.    -.    ---    .-.    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01100111 01101110 01101111 01110010 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#103 &#110 &#111 &#114 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0067 006E 006F 0072 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

437380818471

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Familiar
7. Quotations: Historic
8. Quotations: Fiction
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Spoken
11. Quotations: Speeches
12. Usage Frequency
13. Expressions
14. Expressions: Internet
15. Translations: Modern
16. Translations: Ancient
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Orthography
21. Bibliography


  

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