diff --git a/gget/gget_diamond.py b/gget/gget_diamond.py
index 94dc76ab..e7a53461 100644
--- a/gget/gget_diamond.py
+++ b/gget/gget_diamond.py
@@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ def diamond(
 
     if out is None:
         command = f"{PRECOMPILED_DIAMOND_PATH} makedb --quiet --in {reference} -d reference \
-            && {PRECOMPILED_DIAMOND_PATH} blastp --quiet -q {input_file} -d reference -o {output} --{sensitivity}"
+            && {PRECOMPILED_DIAMOND_PATH} blastp --quiet -q {input_file} -d reference -o {output} --{sensitivity} --ignore-warnings"
     else:
         output = out
         # The double-quotation marks allow white spaces in the path, but this does not work for Windows
         command = f"{PRECOMPILED_DIAMOND_PATH} makedb --quiet --in {reference} -d reference \
-            && {PRECOMPILED_DIAMOND_PATH} blastp --quiet -q {input_file} -d reference -o {out}.tsv --{sensitivity}"
+            && {PRECOMPILED_DIAMOND_PATH} blastp --quiet -q {input_file} -d reference -o {out}.tsv --{sensitivity} --ignore-warnings"
     # Run diamond command and write command output
     with subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stderr=subprocess.PIPE) as process_2:
         stderr_2 = process_2.stderr.read().decode("utf-8")