Ignorant?

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I've seen a few people say 'ignorant' when they mean 'ignore'. As in "I'm not being ignorant" instead of "I'm not ignoring you".

WTF? Before I burst a teeny tiny blood vessel, is this a regional thing, or, erm, ignorance? :o

I would use it to mean lack of knowledge but I've heard it lots to mean being rude

I've always found it odd.

Is it a regional thing? I have one friend who describes her DD as "ignorant", when she doesn't say hello to people. Odd.

Oh good, it's definitely odd then :)

I've heard it quite a bit, and despite the fact that it's different from its original meaning, I've taken it to refer to an ignorance of social norms. So it's acting like you don't know how to behave if you don't say hello to someone, for example.

Could be giving them too much credit though!

ignore (v.)
1610s, "not to know, to be ignorant of," from Fr. ignorer "be unaware of," from L. ignorare "not to know, disregard" (see ignorant). Sense of "pay no attention to" first recorded 1801 (Barnhart says "probably a dictionary word"), and not common until c.1850. Related: Ignored; ignoring.

ignorant (adj.)
late 14c., from O.Fr. ignorant (14c.), from L. ignorantia, from ignorantem (nom. ignorans), prp. of ignorare "not to know, to be unacquainted; mistake, misunderstand; take no notice of, pay no attention to," from assimilated form of in- ?not, opposite of? (see in- (1)) + Old Latin gnarus "aware, acquainted with"

Emphasis mine. That suggests it is being used correctly in your examples.