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ignorable
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Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-der.
Latin īgnōrōlbor.
French ignorer
English ignore
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlom
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English ignorable
From ignore + -able.
adjective more ignorable · most ignorable
- Able to be ignored. Users on this Internet chat system are ignorable by right-clicking the user name.
- Insignificant or trivial enough to be ignored.
- Unrelated to the parameters being estimated Although there is an abundance of statistical literature describing (complicated) methods that can be used to investigate whether or not one is dealing with ignorable or informative missing data in a longitudinal study (see, for instance, Diggle, 1989; Ridout, 1991; Diggle et al., 1994), it is basic
noun ignorables
- Anything that can be ignored. So long as people like Mr Spearing stop at this point and resort to adjectives instead of numbers, so long will engineers, and probably also decision makers, continue to treat intangibles as ignorables.
