diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 83a46a53..2bbebfcc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Status of the `main` branch. Changes prior to the next official version change w
     symbolic operations (such as `find_referencing_symbols`) to report stale information.
     An explicit file system polling mechanism is now used to detect changes prior to the affected
     tool executions.
+  - Fix: Order of ignore patterns passed to language servers was not respected #1729 
   - Improve uv-based language server launch command compatibility: Use the more widely supported 
     `uv tool run` instead of `uv x` #1721
   - Java (JDT-LS): add `runtimes` to `ls_specific_settings.java`, a list of extra JRE/JDK entries
diff --git a/src/solidlsp/ls.py b/src/solidlsp/ls.py
index 820d241d..6fd94c5e 100644
--- a/src/solidlsp/ls.py
+++ b/src/solidlsp/ls.py
@@ -547,17 +547,8 @@ class SolidLanguageServer(ABC):
         """
         self.server.on_any_notification(self._observe_server_notification)
 
-        # Set up the pathspec matcher for the ignored paths
-        # for all absolute paths in ignored_paths, convert them to relative paths
-        processed_patterns = []
-        for pattern in set(config.ignored_paths):
-            # Normalize separators (pathspec expects forward slashes)
-            pattern = pattern.replace(os.path.sep, "/")
-            processed_patterns.append(pattern)
-        log.debug(f"Processing {len(processed_patterns)} ignored paths from the config")
-
-        # Create a pathspec matcher from the processed patterns
-        self._ignore_spec = pathspec.PathSpec.from_lines(pathspec.patterns.GitWildMatchPattern, processed_patterns)
+        # create a pathspec matcher from the given patterns
+        self._ignore_spec = pathspec.PathSpec.from_lines(pathspec.patterns.GitWildMatchPattern, config.ignored_paths)
 
         self._has_waited_for_cross_file_references = False
 
diff --git a/src/solidlsp/ls_config.py b/src/solidlsp/ls_config.py
index f5b6edea..2ba90791 100644
--- a/src/solidlsp/ls_config.py
+++ b/src/solidlsp/ls_config.py
@@ -910,7 +910,10 @@ class LanguageServerConfig:
     trace_lsp_communication: bool = False
     start_independent_lsp_process: bool = True
     ignored_paths: list[str] = field(default_factory=list)
-    """Paths, dirs or glob-like patterns. The matching will follow the same logic as for .gitignore entries"""
+    """
+    list of ordered ignore patterns (same syntax as .gitignore; only forward slashes) to be used by the language server
+    for filtering out files and folders from indexing and analysis.
+    """
     encoding: str = "utf-8"
     """File encoding to use when reading source files"""