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# disregarded

«disregarded» in Mova's school dictionary: **ignored or not paid attention to** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb past form of disregard (disregard, disregards, disregarded, disregarding); adjective (disregarded)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Disregarded means ignored or not paid attention to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disregarded/#m1)

2) (formal) Disregarded can mean treated as not important. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disregarded/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and science exam language: «Air resistance may be disregarded» means you can ignore it in your working. In safety: «He disregarded the warning sign» means he ignored it, which is dangerous. Everyday speech says «ignored».

### examples

- He disregarded the warning and swam too far out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disregarded/#x1)
- Friction may be disregarded in this question. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disregarded/#x2)
- She disregarded her mum's advice and got wet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disregarded/#x3)
- (formal) Any answer without working will be disregarded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disregarded/#x4)
- The rule was disregarded by some players. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disregarded/#x5)
- Disregard the first result because it was a mistake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disregarded/#x6)
- She therefore bravely disregarded the orders of the king, and endeavoured to give sepulture to the remains of Polynices. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disregarded/#x7)

### note

Formal word; everyday equivalent «ignored». In maths, a disregarded value is left out of the calculation: if one of five test scores is disregarded, the average is taken over four.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «disregarded» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/disregarded/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.