The phrase "pay attention" implies a certain level of focus and attentiveness. Antonyms, or words with opposite meanings, would suggest the opposite. Some examples of antonyms for "pay attention" might include ignoring, neglecting, or disregarding. These words suggest a lack of attention or effort to concentrate on something. Other antonyms might include daydreaming, spacing out, or drifting off. These words indicate a lack of focus, where one's thoughts may wander or lose their grasp on the task at hand. Regardless of the antonym used, it suggests a lack of attention and deliberation, which can ultimately hinder one's ability to learn and grow.

What are the antonyms for Pay attention?

v.
• blink
- By-pass
- Overpassed
- Overpassing
- by pass
- by passed
- by passes
- by passing
- by-passed
- by-passes
- by-passing
- failed
- neglect
- over pass
- over passed
- over passes
- over passing
- over-pass
- over-passed
- over-passes
- over-passing
- overpast
- passed by
- turn a blind eye
- turned a blind eye
- turned blind eye
- turning a blind eye
- turning blind eye
- turns a blind eye
- turns blind eye
• brush aside/brush off
- cold shouldered
- cold shouldering
- cold-shoulder
- cold-shouldered
- cold-shouldering
- cold-shoulders
- coldshoulder
- coldshouldered
- coldshouldering
- coldshoulders
- dis claim
- dis claimed
- dis claiming
- dis claims
- dis missed
- dis missing
- dis owned
- dis owning
- dis-claim
- dis-claimed
- dis-claiming
- dis-claims
- dis-missed
- dis-missing
- dis-owned
- dis-owning
- haddest no time for
- hadst no time for
- has no time for
- hast no time for
- hath no time for
- have no time for
- having no time for
- over ridden
- over ride
- over rides
- over riding
- over rode
- over-ridden
- over-ride
- over-rides
- over-riding
- over-rode
- re-buff
- send away
- sending away
- sends away
- sent away
- spurn
- sweep aside
- sweeping aside
- sweeps aside
- swept aside
• defy
- Outdare
- de feat
- de feats
- de ride
- de rides
- de riding
- de-feat
- de-feats
- de-ride
- de-rides
- de-riding
- flew face of
- flew in face of
- flies face of
- fly face of
- fly in face of
- flying face of
- flying in face of
- hurl defiance at
- hurled defiance at
- hurling defiance at
- made my day
- make my day
- makes my day
- making my day
- out dare
- out dared
- out dares
- out daring
- out-dare
- out-dared
- out-dares
- out-daring
- outdared
- outdares
- outdaring
- re pulsed
- re pulses
- re pulsing
- re-pulsed
- re-pulses
- re-pulsing
- stick fast
- sticked fast
- sticks fast
- stuck fast
- take one on
- takes one on
- taking one on
- took one on
- with stand
- with standing
- with stands
- with stood
- with-stand
- with-standing
- with-stands
• discount
- Dispraised
- Dispraising
- Undersold
- all owed
- all owing
- all-owed
- all-owing
- be little
- be littles
- be-little
- be-littles
- blink at
- blinked at
- blinking at
- blinks at
- de duct
- de ducted
- de ducting
- de ducts
- de-duct
- de-ducted
- de-ducting
- de-ducts
- detract from
- detracted from
- detracting from
- detracts from
- dis believe
- dis believed
- dis believes
- dis believing
- dis counted
- dis counting
- dis counts
- dis credit
- dis credited
- dis crediting
- dis credits
- dis praise
- dis praised
- dis praises
- dis praising
- dis-believe
- dis-believed
- dis-believes
- dis-believing
- dis-counted
- dis-counting
- dis-counts
- dis-credit
- dis-credited
- dis-crediting
- dis-credits
- dis-praise
- dis-praised
- dis-praises
- dis-praising
- dispraise
- dispraises
- held a sale
- held sale
- hold a sale
- hold sale
- holding sale
- holds a sale
- holds sale
- make allowance for
- makes allowance for
- making allowance for
- mark down
- marked down
- mis trust
- mis trusted
- mis trusting
- mis trusts
- mis-trust
- mis-trusted
- mis-trusting
- mis-trusts
- mistrust
- re bate
- re bated
- re bates
- re bating
- re deem
- re deemed
- re deeming
- re move
- re moved
- re moving
- re-bate
- re-bated
- re-bating
- re-deem
- re-deeming
- re-deems
- re-move
- re-moves
- re-moving
- rebated
- rebating
- scoff at
- scoffed at
- scoffing at
- scoffs at
- sell discount
- selling at discount
- sells at discount
- sold at discount
- sold discount
- strike off
- strikes off
- striking off
- strook off
- struck off
- sub tracts
- sub-tract
- sub-tracts
- take away
- takes away
- taking away
- took away
- under sell
- under selling
- under sells
- under sold
- under-sell
- under-sells
- undersell
- undersells
• disdain
- Misprize
- am allergic to
- are allergic to
- art allergic to
- be allergic to
- being allergic to
- is allergic to
- look down nose at
- looking down nose at
- looks down nose at
- mis prize
- mis prized
- mis prizing
- mis-prize
- mis-prized
- mis-prizes
- mis-prizing
- misprized
- misprizes
- misprizing
- re fuse
- re fused
- re fuses
- re fusing
- re-fuse
- re-fused
- sneer at
- sneered at
- sneering at
- sneers at
- under value
- under valued
- under values
- under-value
- under-valued
- under-values
- under-valuing
- was allergic to
- wast allergic to
- were allergic to
- wert allergic to
• dismiss
- pooh-pooh
• dispense with
- abstained from
- abstaining from
- abstains from
- give up
- rendered needless
- rendering needless
- renders needless
• disregard
- Vilipend
- brush away
- brushed away
- brushes away
- brushing away
- dis obey
- dis obeyed
- dis obeying
- dis obeys
- dis regard
- dis regarded
- dis regarding
- dis regards
- dis-obey
- dis-obeyed
- dis-obeying
- dis-obeys
- dis-regard
- dis-regarded
- dis-regarding
- dis-regards
- had no use for
- haddest no use for
- hadst no use for
- has no use for
- hast no use for
- hath no use for
- have no use for
- having no use for
- laugh off
- laughed off
- laughing off
- laughs off
- leave out account
- leave out of account
- leaved out account
- leaved out of account
- leaves out account
- leaves out of account
- leaving out account
- leaving out of account
- left out account
- left out of account
- let easy
- let off easy
- let pass
- lets easy
- lets go
- lets off easy
- lets pass
- letted easy
- letted go
- letted off easy
- letted pass
- letting easy
- letting go
- letting off easy
- letting pass
- live with
- lived with
- lives with
- living with
- look other way
- look the other way
- looked other way
- looked the other way
- looking other way
- looking the other way
- looks other way
- looks the other way
- miss
- paid no attention to
- paid no heed to
- paid no mind
- pay no attention to
- pay no heed to
- pay no mind
- payed no attention to
- payed no heed to
- payed no mind
- paying no attention to
- paying no heed to
- paying no mind
- pays no attention to
- pays no heed to
- pays no mind
- shut eyes to
- shuts eyes to
- shutting eyes to
- take no notice of
- takes no notice of
- taking no notice of
- took no notice of
- tune out
- tuned out
- tunes out
- tuning out
- turn a deaf ear
- turned a deaf ear
- turned deaf ear
- turning a deaf ear
- turning deaf ear
- turns a deaf ear
- turns deaf ear
- vilipended
- vilipending
- vilipends
- wink at
- winked at
- winking at
- winks at
• disregard on purpose
- ignore
• disregard, neglect
- overlook
• exclude, forget
- omit
• fail
- Faulted
- Funking
- brake one word
- brake one's word
- brake ones word
- brake word
- break one word
- break one's word
- break ones word
- break word
- breaking one word
- breaking one's word
- breaking ones word
- breaking word
- breaks one word
- breaks one's word
- breaks ones word
- breaks word
- broke one word
- broke one's word
- broke ones word
- broke word
- de sert
- de-sert
- dis appoint
- dis appointed
- dis appointing
- dis appoints
- dis-appoint
- dis-appointed
- dis-appointing
- dis-appoints
- funked
- go astray
- goes astray
- going astray
- mis carried
- mis carries
- mis carry
- mis carrying
- mis-carry
- mis-carrying
- went astray
• forget
- lose sight of
- loses sight of
- losing sight of
- lost sight of
• give someone the cold shoulder
- snub
• heed
- disregard
- forget
- misunderstand
- not get
• hold in contempt; look down on
- scorn
• ignore
- Winked
- am oblivious to
- art oblivious to
- be oblivious to
- being oblivious to
- brush off
- buried head in sand
- buried head sand
- buried one head in sand
- buried one head sand
- buried one's head in sand
- buried one's head sand
- buried ones head in sand
- buried ones head sand
- buries head in sand
- buries head sand
- buries one head in sand
- buries one head sand
- buries one's head in sand
- buries one's head sand
- buries ones head in sand
- buries ones head sand
- bury head in sand
- bury head sand
- bury one head in sand
- bury one head sand
- bury one's head in sand
- bury one's head sand
- bury ones head in sand
- bury ones head sand
- burying head in sand
- burying head sand
- burying one head in sand
- burying one head sand
- burying one's head in sand
- burying one's head sand
- burying ones head in sand
- burying ones head sand
- is oblivious to
- let it go
- lets it go
- letted it go
- letting it go
- take no notice
- takes no notice
- taking no notice
- took no notice
- turn back on
- turn blind eye
- turn deaf ear
- turned back on
- turning back on
- turns back on
- was oblivious to
- wast oblivious to
- were oblivious to
- wert oblivious to
- winking
• lower, reduce cost
- discount
• make a mistake
- miscalculate
• mark
- disbelieve
- look away
• mind
- disobey
• miscalculate
- Overvalued
- Overvaluing
- drop ball
- drop the ball
- dropped ball
- dropped the ball
- dropping ball
- dropping the ball
- drops ball
- drops the ball
- dropt ball
- dropt the ball
- gat signals crossed
- get wrong
- gets signals crossed
- gets wrong
- getting signals crossed
- getting wrong
- go wrong
- going wrong
- got signals crossed
- got wrong
- gotten signals crossed
- mis calculated
- mis calculates
- mis calculating
- mis construe
- mis construed
- mis construing
- mis counted
- mis counts
- mis interpreted
- mis interpreting
- mis interprets
- mis judged
- mis judges
- mis judging
- mis read
- mis reading
- mis reads
- mis reckon
- mis reckoned
- mis reckoning
- mis understand
- mis understanding
- mis understands
- mis understood
- mis-calculates
- mis-calculating
- mis-construe
- mis-construed
- mis-construes
- mis-construing
- mis-counted
- mis-counts
- mis-interpreted
- mis-interprets
- mis-judged
- mis-judges
- mis-judging
- mis-read
- mis-reading
- mis-reads
- mis-reckon
- mis-reckoned
- mis-reckoning
- mis-reckons
- mis-understand
- mis-understanding
- miscounted
- miscounting
- misestimate
- miss by a mile
- miss by mile
- missed by a mile
- missed by mile
- misses by a mile
- missing by a mile
- missing by mile
- over estimate
- over estimated
- over estimates
- over estimating
- over rate
- over rated
- over rates
- over rating
- over value
- over valued
- over values
- over valuing
- over-estimate
- over-estimated
- over-estimates
- over-estimating
- over-rate
- over-rated
- over-rates
- over-rating
- over-value
- over-valued
- over-valuing
- overestimate
- overestimated
- overestimates
- overestimating
- overvalue
- overvalues
- slip up
- slipped up
- slipping up
- slips up
- slipt up
- under estimate
- under estimated
- under estimates
- under rate
- under rated
- under rates
- under rating
- under-estimate
- under-estimated
- under-estimates
- under-estimating
- under-rate
- under-rated
- under-rates
- under-rating
- went wrong
• misestimate
- mis estimate
- mis estimated
- mis estimates
- mis estimating
- mis-estimate
- mis-estimated
- mis-estimates
- mis-estimating
• miss
- Overshooting
- am late for
- are late for
- art late for
- be late for
- being late for
- fall flat face
- fall flat on face
- fall short
- falling flat face
- falling flat on face
- falling short
- falls flat on face
- falls short
- fell flat on face
- is late for
- let slip
- lets slip
- letted slip
- letting slip
- mis fire
- mis fired
- mis fires
- mis firing
- mis lay
- mis laying
- mis lays
- mis place
- mis placed
- mis placing
- mis-fire
- mis-fired
- mis-fires
- mis-firing
- mis-laid
- mis-lay
- mis-laying
- mis-lays
- mis-place
- mis-places
- mis-placing
- over shooting
- over shot
- over-shooting
- overshoot
- overshoots
- overshot
- pass up
- passed up
- passes up
- passing up
- trip up
- tripped up
- tripping up
- trips up
- under shooting
- under shot
- under-shooting
- under-shot
- undershoot
- undershooting
- undershoots
- undershot
- was late for
- wast late for
- were late for
- wert late for
• neglect
- Pretermitted
- Pretermitting
- Scanted
- Scanting
- de tested
- de testing
- de-tested
- de-testing
- had nothing do with
- had nothing to do with
- haddest nothing do with
- haddest nothing to do with
- hadst nothing do with
- hadst nothing to do with
- has nothing do with
- hast nothing do with
- hast nothing to do with
- hath nothing do with
- have nothing do with
- have nothing to do with
- having nothing do with
- having nothing to do with
- keep arm length
- keep arm's length
- keep arms length
- keep at arm length
- keep at arm's length
- keep at arms length
- keep distance
- keep one distance
- keep one's distance
- keeping arm length
- keeping arm's length
- keeping arms length
- keeping at arm length
- keeping at arm's length
- keeping at arms length
- keeping distance
- keeping one distance
- keeping one's distance
- keeping ones distance
- keeps arm length
- keeps arm's length
- keeps at arm length
- keeps at arm's length
- keeps at arms length
- keeps one distance
- keeps ones distance
- kept arm's length
- kept arms length
- kept at arm length
- kept at arm's length
- kept at arms length
- kept distance
- kept one distance
- kept one's distance
- made light of
- make light of
- makes light of
- making light of
- pretermit
- pretermits
- scants
• offend, insult
- slight
• omit
- cast aside
- casting aside
- casts aside
- dis card
- dis carded
- dis carding
- dis cards
- dis-card
- dis-carded
- dis-carding
- dis-cards
- ex cept
- ex-cept
- leave out
- leave undone
- leaved undone
- leaves out
- leaves undone
- leaving out
- leaving undone
- left undone
- let slide
- letted slide
- letting slide
- missed out
- misses out
- missing out
- with held
- with hold
- with holding
- with holds
- with-held
- with-hold
- with-holds
- x outed
- x outing
- x outs
- x-outed
- x-outing
- x-outs
- xout
- xouted
- xouting
- xouts
• omit; do away with
- dispense with
• overlook
- fail notice
- fail to notice
- failed notice
- failing notice
- failing to notice
- fails notice
- fails to notice
- go along with
- grin and bear it
- grin bear it
- grinned and bear it
- grinned bear it
- grinning and bear it
- grinning bear it
- grins bear it
- let bygones be bygones
- let fall between the cracks
- lets bygones be bygones
- lets fall between the cracks
- letted bygones be bygones
- letted fall between cracks
- letted fall between the cracks
- letting bygones be bygones
- over look
- over looked
- over looks
- over-look
- over-looking
- over-looks
- paid no attention
- payed no attention
- pays no attention
- play past
- played past
- playing past
- plays past
- put up with
- put with
- putting up with
- putting with
- roll with punches
- rolled with punches
- rolling with punches
- rolls with punches
- swam with the tide
- swam with tide
- swim with tide
- swimming with the tide
- swimming with tide
- swims with the tide
- swims with tide
- turn blind eye to
- turned blind eye to
- turning blind eye to
- turns blind eye to
- wiped slate clean
- wipes slate clean
- wiping slate clean
• pass
- de cline
- de clines
- de-cline
- de-clines
- not heed
- not heeding
- not heeds
- pass on
- passed on
- passes on
- passing on
• pooh-pooh
- pooh pooh
- poohpooh
- treat with contempt
- treated with contempt
- treating with contempt
- treats with contempt
- wave aside
- waved aside
- waves aside
- waving aside
• pursue
- discontinue
- eschew
- retreat
- run away
- shun
- stop
• rebuff
- beat off
- beating off
- beats off
- dis allow
- dis allowed
- dis allowing
- dis allows
- dis courage
- dis courages
- dis-allow
- dis-allowed
- dis-allowing
- dis-allows
- dis-courage
- dis-courages
- keep at a distance
- keep at bay
- keep at distance
- keep bay
- keeping a distance
- keeping at bay
- keeping at distance
- keeping bay
- keeps a distance
- keeps at a distance
- keeps at distance
- keeps bay
- kept a distance
- kept at a distance
- kept bay
- lashed out at
- lashes out at
- lashing out at
- not hear of
- push back
- pushed back
- pushes back
- pushing back
- put in one place
- put in one's place
- put in ones place
- put one place
- put one's place
- put ones place
- put place
- puts in one place
- puts in one's place
- puts in ones place
- puts in place
- puts one place
- puts one's place
- puts ones place
- puts place
- putting in one place
- putting in one's place
- putting in ones place
- putting in place
- putting one place
- putting one's place
- putting ones place
- putting place
- re buff
- re buffed
- re buffing
- re buffs
- re prove
- re proved
- re proves
- re-buffed
- re-buffing
- re-buffs
- re-prove
- re-proved
- re-proves
- re-proving
- ward off
• respect
- condemn
- disrespect
- hate
• scorn
- Trashed
- am above
- are above
- art above
- be above
- being above
- consider beneath one
- considered beneath one
- considering beneath one
- considers beneath one
- disdain
- is above
- turn nose at
- turn nose up at
- turned nose at
- turned nose up at
- turning nose at
- turning nose up at
- turns nose at
- turns nose up at
- was above
- wast above
- were above
- wert above
• slight
- gave brush
- gave cold shoulder to
- gave the brush
- gave the cold shoulder to
- give cold shoulder to
- give the cold shoulder to
- gives brush
- gives cold shoulder to
- gives the cold shoulder to
- giving brush
- giving cold shoulder to
- giving the brush
- not give time day
- show disrespect
- showed disrespect
- showing disrespect
- shows disrespect
- turn deaf ear to
- turned deaf ear to
- turning deaf ear to
- turns deaf ear to
- up stage
- up stages
- up staging
- up-stage
- up-staged
- up-stages
- up-staging
• snub
- Burring
- act cool
- acted cool
- acting cool
- acts cool
- burred
- cut dead
- cuts dead
- cutting dead
- ice out
- iced
- iced out
- ices out
- icing out
- look coldly up on
- look coldly upon
- look right through
- looked coldly up on
- looked coldly upon
- looked right through
- looking coldly up on
- looking coldly upon
- looking right through
- looks coldly upon
- looks right through
- put chill on
- put the chill on
- puts chill on
- puts the chill on
- putting chill on
- putting the chill on
- snobbed
- snobbing
• watch
- avoid
- harm
- hurt
- pass by
• wink of eye; twinkle
- blink
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Look, I get it; you come home, you work hard, and you turn on your TV... You kind of want to escape a little bit and be taken away by something. Our show required you to pay attention, and if that's not what you wanted to do, then it wasn't going to be for you, and that's OK.

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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

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