Meaning & use

Ignorable

adjective·Academic

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Able to be disregarded or paid no attention to without serious consequence.

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The warning light was minor and ignorable, according to the mechanic.

In programming, certain exceptions are ignorable if they don't affect the final output.

A note on using this word

In computing, 'ignorable' often describes errors or flags that a system can safely skip without crashing.

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negligibledismissibledisregardable

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