Basic Details
Word: Disregarding
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Paying no attention to something, or treating it as unimportant, often on purpose.
Synonyms: ignoring, overlooking, neglecting, dismissing
Antonyms: heeding, noticing, respecting, obeying
How to Spell Disregarding
Syllables: dis - re - gard - ing
Tricky part: The middle block is regard, which has no u, but many students write disreguarding because they are thinking of guard. Nothing doubles at either join.
Watch out for: disreguarding, disregaurding, dissregarding, disrigarding
Memory tip: Build it from three blocks you already know, dis + regard + ing, and lay them side by side: no letter is added, doubled or dropped at the joins.
Usage Examples
Example 1: Disregarding the drizzle, the boys carried on with their cricket match in the lane.
Example 2: The report said the factory had been disregarding safety rules for years.
Example 3: Kavya kept practising the song, disregarding the jokes her cousins made.
Fun Fact
Regard and guard are related: regard comes from the Old French regarder, built from re- and garder, to watch over. To disregard something is, at root, to stop watching it.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
disreguarding
a) u
b) r
c) d
d) g
Show answer
a) u. Regard, the middle block, has no u; the u creeps in from the word guard.
Word Connection
Choose the word opposite in meaning to disregarding as used in the sentence:
Disregarding the doctor's advice, Rahul went back to football a week after his ankle injury.
a) dismissing
b) overlooking
c) heeding
d) ignoring
Show answer
c) heeding. To heed advice is to pay attention to it, the reverse of disregarding it; the other three mean much the same as disregarding.
Mingle-Mangle
Unjumble the word in the sentence and choose it:
The driver was fined for gnirasdegidr the red light at the crossing.
a) disrespecting
b) discarding
c) regarding
d) disregarding
Show answer
d) disregarding. All twelve letters are used only by disregarding; discarding needs a c, and regarding leaves out d, i and s.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. If a cyclist is disregarding traffic signals, he is ____.
a) counting them
b) obeying them
c) repairing them
d) ignoring them
Show answer
d) ignoring them
2. Which phrase could take the place of disregarding in: 'Disregarding the cost, they booked the best seats.'
a) In return for
b) Because of
c) After checking
d) Without worrying about
Show answer
d) Without worrying about
