different between abdicate vs ignore

English

Etymology

• First attested in 1541.
• From Latin abdic?tus (“renounced”), perfect passive participle of abdic? (“renounce, reject, disclaim”), formed from ab (“away”) + dic? (“proclaim, dedicate, declare”), akin to d?c? (“say”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æb.d??ke?t/

Verb

abdicate (third-person singular simple present abdicates, present participle abdicating, simple past and past participle abdicated)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit. [Attested from the mid 16^th century until the early 19^th century.]
2. (transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To formally separate oneself from or to divest oneself of. [First attested from the mid 16^th century until the late 17^th century.]
3. (transitive, obsolete) To depose. [Attested from the early 17^th century until the late 18^th century.]
4. (transitive, obsolete) To reject; to cast off; to discard. [Attested from the mid 16^th century until the late 17^th century.]
   • May 29 1647, Joseph Hall, Hard Measure

     betray and abdicate the due right both of ourselves and successors

5. (transitive) To surrender, renounce or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; to fail to fulfill responsibility for. [First attested in the mid 17^th century.]

   Note: The word abdicate was held to mean, in the case of James II, to abandon without a formal surrender.
6. (intransitive) To relinquish or renounce a throne, or other high office or dignity; to renounce sovereignty. [First attested in the early 18^th century.]

Synonyms

Antonyms

• claim
• grasp
• maintain
• occupy
• retain
• seize
• usurp

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

References

• abdicate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Verb

abdicate

1. second-person plural present indicative of abdicare
2. second-person plural imperative of abdicare

Latin

Verb

abdic?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of abdic?

English

Etymology

From French ignorer, from Latin ign?r? (“to have no knowledge of, mistake, take no notice of, ignore”), from ign?rus (“not knowing”), from in + gn?rus (“knowing”), from gn?sc?, n?sc?; see know.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?gnô?, IPA^(key): /???n??/
• (US) enPR: ?gnôr?, IPA^(key): /???n??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?gn?r?, IPA^(key): /???no(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /???no?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: ig?nore

Verb

ignore (third-person singular simple present ignores, present participle ignoring, simple past and past participle ignored) (transitive)

1. To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.

   Synonyms: misheed, neglect, unmind, unheed; see also Thesaurus:ignore

   Antonyms: notice, recognize, watch; see also Thesaurus:pay attention

2. To pretend to not notice someone or something.

   Synonyms: connive, dissimulate, overlook, turn a blind eye to, wink at

   Antonyms: notice, observe

3. (obsolete) Fail to notice.

   Synonyms: misheed, overlook; see also Thesaurus:fail to notice

4. (obsolete) Not to know.

   Synonym: be ignorant of

   Antonym: know

Derived terms

• ignorable

Related terms

• ignorance
• ignorant

Translations

Further reading

• ignore in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ignore in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Regino, eringo, ingoer, region

French

Verb

ignore

1. first-person singular present indicative of ignorer
2. third-person singular present indicative of ignorer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of ignorer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of ignorer
5. second-person singular imperative of ignorer

Anagrams

• région

Portuguese

Verb

ignore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of ignorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of ignorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of ignorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of ignorar

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [i??nore]

Verb

ignore

1. third-person singular present subjunctive of ignora
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of ignora

Spanish

Verb

ignore

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of ignorar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of ignorar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of ignorar.