DISREGARDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disregarded mean? 

• DISREGARDED (adjective)
  The adjective DISREGARDED has 1 sense:

1. not noticed inadvertently

  Familiarity information: DISREGARDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISREGARDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not noticed inadvertently

Synonyms:

disregarded; forgotten

Context example:

he was scolded for his forgotten chores

Similar:

unnoticed (not noticed)

 Context examples 

“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)

Duty, affection, every thing was disregarded.

(Sense and Sensibility, 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)

“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)

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)

The remonstrance was too reasonable to be disregarded.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At all times I lounged about the house and neighbourhood quite disregarded, except that they were jealous of my making any friends: thinking, perhaps, that if I did, I might complain to someone.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

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

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

I tried to put on as unconcerned an air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon my two companions.

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

But he disregarded my protest.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)