ignore, v. 1. disregard, cut, pass over or by, Inf. give [s.t.] a miss or the go-by; snub, pay no heed to, be inattentive to, brush aside, slight, pretend not to see, look right through or past [s.o.], cold-shoulder, SI. give [s.o.] the brush or brush-off, SI. brush [s.o.] off; set aside, fly in the face of, shrug off or away, push aside, write off, turn one's back on, close or shut one's eyes to, blink, wink at; turn a blind eye on, be blind to, fail to notice, turn a deaf ear to, not trouble oneself with, bury or hide or have one's head in the sand, be inattentive to.
2. omit, not take into account, overlook, neglect, leave out, skip. ilk, n. kind, sort, kidney, type, brand, breed; make, cast, cut, mold, form; grain, feather, tone, color, stripe, stamp; character, makeup, composition; family, class, genre, category. ill, adj. 1. sick, sickly, sickened, ailing; unhealthy, unsound, unwell, SI. off one's feed, poorly; afflicted, diseased, morbid, poisoned, nauseated, strung out; in a bad way, on the sick list, Inf. under the weather, Inf. out of sorts, not up to snuff, Inf. on the blink; feverish, aching, sore; weak, weakly, feeble, infirm, wasting away; indisposed, laid up, bedridden, confined; disordered, out of order, out of commission; invalided, valetudinarian.
2. evil, wicked, sinful, iniquitous, nefarious; bad, low, mean; wrong, corrupt, depraved, degenerate, immoral.
3. objectionable, unsatisfactory, deficient, insufficient, unacceptable; unskillful, inexpert, faulty, poor.
4. hostile, antagonistic, belligerent, bellicose; unfriendly, unkindly, unkind; irascible, cross, fractious, snappish, snappy, irritable; cantankerous, crabby, crabbed, sullen.
5. unfavorable, adverse, unlucky, unpropitious, inauspicious, unpromising, infelicitous; pernicious, harmful, injurious, nocuous, hurtful; detrimental, deleterious, baleful, fell; destructive, ruinous, calamitous, damaging.
-n. 6. evil, harm, mischief, injury, hurt, Archaic. bale, pain; trouble, misfortune, affliction, grievance, misery, suffering, woe; destruction, damage, ruin; disaster, calamity, catastrophe, debacle, cataclysm.
7. illness, sickness, ailment, malady, disease; disorder, infirmity, indisposition; infection, contagion. -adv. 8. wickedly, evilly, malignantly, banefully, hurtfully, harmfully, mischievously.
9. objectionably, unsatisfactorily, insufficiently, poorly, badly, faultily, improperly.
10. hostilely, antagonistically, belligerently, inimically.
11. unfortunately, adversely, unluckily, unfavorably, unpropitiously, inauspiciously. ill-advised, adj. 1. imprudent, incautious, indiscreet* inappropriate, unseemly, unsuitable, irresponsible, foolish; injudicious, ill-judged, inexpedient, unwise, ill-considered, ill-suited, impolitic, unadvised, unadvisable; misguided, miscounseied, wrong-headed, perverse.
2. impetuous, impulsive, hasty, over-hasty, shortsighted, heedless, unheeding; foolhardy, headlong, brakeneck, hazardous; rash, hot-headed, brash, unwary, unguarded; uncircumspect, thoughtless, careless, reckless, harebrained, madcap, temerarious, wild; spontaneous, unpremeditated, sudden, abrupt, precipitate. ill-at-ease, adj. uncomfortable, uneasy, unquiet, disquieted, anxious, distressed, troubled; nervous, SI. antsy, Inf. on pins and needles, on tenterhooks; fearful, afraid, distrustful, apprehensive, watchful, guarded; self-conscious, awkward, faltering, unsure, uncertain.