Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ignoring

/ˌɪɡnˈɔɹɪŋ/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: 4.04 in modern English

Syllables: ig-nor-ing
IPA: /ˌɪɡnˈɔɹɪŋ/

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of ignore

noun

The act by which something is ignored.

Example Sentences

"Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!"
"We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S does not ignore them. S is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because S never knew much of anything."

Inflected Forms

ignorings (plural)

Rhymes With

boring scoring exploring pouring restoring storing roaring soaring flooring snoring warring adoring

Questions

How do you pronounce ignoring?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˌɪɡnˈɔɹɪŋ/.
What does ignoring mean?: present participle and gerund of ignore

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