ignorant
Meanings
Plural: ignorants
Adjective Satellite
- uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
- "an ignorant man"
- uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
- "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"
- unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge
- "he was completely ignorant of the circumstances"
Adj
- Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
- Not knowing (a fact or facts), unaware (of something).
- Ill-mannered, crude.
- unknown; undiscovered
- Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
Noun
- One who is ignorant.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French ignorant. By surface analysis, ignore + -ant.
Synonyms
benighted, cimmerian, clueless, foolish, ignorant, ill-informed, illiterate, innocent, lack-learning, lay, lewd, loreless, nescient, oblivious, philistine, unaware, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, unerudite, uninformed, unknowing, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlearnt, unlettered, unmindful, unread, unscholarly, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutored, unwitting
Scrabble Score: 9
ignorant is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordignorant is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
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