DISREGARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disregard mean? 

• DISREGARD (noun)
  The noun DISREGARD has 2 senses:

1. lack of attention and due care

2. willful lack of care and attention

  Familiarity information: DISREGARD used as a noun is rare.

• DISREGARD (verb)
  The verb DISREGARD has 3 senses:

1. refuse to acknowledge

2. bar from attention or consideration

3. give little or no attention to

  Familiarity information: DISREGARD used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISREGARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lack of attention and due care

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

disregard; neglect

Hypernyms ("disregard" is a kind of...):

inattention (lack of attention)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disregard"):

omission (neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something)

Derivation:

disregard (give little or no attention to)

disregard (bar from attention or consideration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Willful lack of care and attention

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

disregard; neglect

Hypernyms ("disregard" is a kind of...):

mistreatment (the practice of treating (someone or something) badly)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disregard"):

despite (contemptuous disregard)

Derivation:

disregard (give little or no attention to)

disregard (bar from attention or consideration)

• DISREGARD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disregard    ... he / she / it disregards   
Past simple: disregarded   
Past participle: disregarded   
-ing form: disregarding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Refuse to acknowledge

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

cut; disregard; ignore; snub

Context example:

She cut him dead at the meeting

Hypernyms (to "disregard" is one way to...):

do by; handle; treat (interact in a certain way)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bar from attention or consideration

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

brush aside; brush off; discount; dismiss; disregard; ignore; push aside

Context example:

She dismissed his advances

Hypernyms (to "disregard" is one way to...):

reject (refuse to accept or acknowledge)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disregard"):

cold-shoulder; slight (pay no attention to, disrespect)

discredit (cause to be distrusted or disbelieved)

shrug off (minimize the importance of, brush aside)

pass off (disregard)

flout; scoff (treat with contemptuous disregard)

turn a blind eye (refuse to acknowledge)

laugh away; laugh off (deal with a problem by laughing or pretending to be amused by it)

disoblige (ignore someone's wishes)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

disregard (willful lack of care and attention)

disregard (lack of attention and due care)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Give little or no attention to

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

disregard; ignore; neglect

Context example:

Disregard the errors

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disregard"):

pretermit (disregard intentionally or let pass)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

disregard (willful lack of care and attention)

disregard (lack of attention and due care)

 Context examples 

The remonstrance was too reasonable to be disregarded.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes disregarded the outstretched hand and looked at him with a face of granite.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He turned upon his heel, disregarding the trembling hand which the other held out to him, and we set off for King’s Pyland.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was no longer to be disregarded and ignored, as was the lot of puppies, and as continued to be the lot of the puppies that were his team-mates.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Disregarding my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand over his head with a sweet womanly caress.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Howsoever it may seem to you to touch me, disregard that.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Good heavens!” cried Elizabeth; “but how could that be? How could his will be disregarded? Why did you not seek legal redress?”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Morland remonstrated, pleaded the authority of road-books, innkeepers, and milestones; but his friend disregarded them all; he had a surer test of distance.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

“I’ve been afraid for about a week,” returned Poole, doggedly disregarding the question, “and I can bear it no more.”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Nay, take it not amiss,” he said, “since all things are but thoughts, then that also is but a thought and may be disregarded.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)