ignored

Ignored is the past participle of the verb ignore. To ignore means to deliberately pay no attention to someone or something, to refrain from acknowledging or considering. When something is ignored, it is not acted upon or recognized.

The verb ignore comes from Latin ignorare, meaning to be ignorant or not to know, via Old French ignorer, and entered English in the late Middle Ages. The sense of deliberately disregarding or failing to acknowledge developed as the word evolved.

Contexts and usage include everyday language, social interaction, and technical domains. In daily speech, a person can ignore another’s remarks or requests. In social contexts, repeated ignoring can signal disinterest or exclusion, sometimes described as a silent treatment. In computing and data processing, ignore designates excluding items from consideration—examples include an ignore list or a .gitignore file that prevents certain files from being tracked by a version control system; programmers may also instruct a program to ignore certain errors or exceptions.

Grammar and nuance: ignore is a transitive verb that takes a direct object (e.g., ignore the message). It can also be used intransitively in phrases like “the notice was ignored.” The adjective form ignored describes something that has been disregarded, while the related word ignorant refers to a lack of knowledge rather than an act of disregard.