Usually means: Dismiss without serious consideration or concern.
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  1. shrug off: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shrug off: Merriam-Webster
  3. shrug off: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shrug off: Vocabulary.com
  5. shrug-off, shrug off: Wordnik
  6. shrug off: Wiktionary
  7. shrug off: Dictionary.com
  8. shrug off: Rhymezone
  9. shrug off: FreeDictionary.org
  10. shrug off: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. shrug off: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrug off: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrug off: Idioms

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  1. shrug off: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shrug off)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To ignore or disregard; to be indifferent to.
▸ verb:  To dispose of, rid oneself of, in a careless or effortless manner.

Similar:
brush off, sluff, brush aside, disregard, blow off, no-sell, sweep aside, turn aside, snub, disconsider, more...

Opposite:
take seriously, take to heart, be affected by, be impacted by

Phrases:
shrug it off, shrug off aggressively, more...

Adjectives:
away, fade, castoff, disappeared, downcast, castaway, total, level, subject, fire, out

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Similar:
brush off, sluff, brush aside, disregard, blow off, no-sell, sweep aside, turn aside, snub, disconsider, more...

Opposite:
take seriously, take to heart, be affected by, be impacted by

Phrases:
shrug it off, shrug off aggressively, more...

Adjectives:
away, fade, castoff, disappeared, downcast, castaway, total, level, subject, fire, out



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