All cognize antonyms
cog·nize
C c verb cognize
- misunderstand — to take (words, statements, etc.) in a wrong sense; understand wrongly.
- disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
- mistake — an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
- neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- overlook — to fail to notice, perceive, or consider: to overlook a misspelled word.
- lose — to come to be without (something in one's possession or care), through accident, theft, etc., so that there is little or no prospect of recovery: I'm sure I've merely misplaced my hat, not lost it.
- miss — to fail to hit or strike: to miss a target.
- misinterpret — Interpret (something or someone) wrongly.
- guess — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
- dissuade — to deter by advice or persuasion; persuade not to do something (often followed by from): She dissuaded him from leaving home.
- disallow — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- refuse — to decline to accept (something offered): to refuse an award.
- avoid — If you avoid something unpleasant that might happen, you take action in order to prevent it from happening.
- release — to lease again.
- fail — to fall short of success or achievement in something expected, attempted, desired, or approved: The experiment failed because of poor planning.
- discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
- stop — to cease from, leave off, or discontinue: to stop running.
- let go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- ignore — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
- mix up — an act or instance of mixing.
- confuse — If you confuse two things, you get them mixed up, so that you think one of them is the other one.
- forget — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.