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Definition of ignorant in English: ignorantadjective ˈɪɡn(ə)r(ə)ntˈɪɡnərənt 1Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated. he was told constantly that he was ignorant and stupid Example sentencesExamples - I will continue to not know such-and-such if I'm treated like an ignorant, unsophisticated fool.
- In fact you look very stupid and ignorant, especially those who attend tertiary-level institutions and are supposed to know better.
- Richard lets us know how ignorant and stupid we all are, and why we really need this internet thing.
- In that way, our people can remain ignorant, uneducated and dumb.
- Born into that family, it was quite likely that he would turn out to be an arrogant, ignorant, stupid young man, and had already given some indication that indeed he is just that.
- It pains us to see you so ignorant and uneducated, and so eager to place yourselves in bondage.
- Now she's always been known to be intellectually smart, but that question was really stupid and ignorant!
- It shows how ignorant, stupid, and irrational you are.
- New Zealanders, it seems, are simply too stupid and ignorant to be able to interpret our own laws properly; instead, we must go offshore.
- Women were seen as ignorant, illiterate and stupid beings who wanted only to produce children - curbing their fertility was obviously needed.
- The policy culture sees the community culture as uneducated, ignorant, backward and occasionally comic in its primitive beliefs.
- One of the media's targets is the stupid and ignorant masses.
- Conservatives are ignorant, stupid, and evil, or some combination of the three.
- This is unbelievably patronising, ignorant and plain stupid.
- How arrogant, how impossibly stupid and just how ignorant are we?
- I attended university as a mature student and was shocked at how ignorant and uneducated our student population actually is.
- In my opinion, the US Congress has now revealed itself to be the most dangerous, ignorant and uneducated bunch of morons in the world.
- The people are too blind or too uninformed or too uneducated or too ignorant or too whatever to see the threat that faces them because they refuse to take a look at it.
- Looking down from up here I can't decide if I'm looking at ignorant behaviour or stupid behaviour.
- I am not ignorant and uneducated however, and I stood by my opinions.
Synonyms uneducated, unknowledgeable, untaught, unschooled, untutored, untrained, illiterate, unlettered, unlearned, unread, uninformed, unenlightened, unscholarly, unqualified, benighted, backward inexperienced, unworldly, unsophisticated unintelligent, stupid, simple, empty-headed, mindless informal pig-ignorant, thick, airheaded, (as) thick as two short planks, dense, dumb, dim, dopey, wet behind the ears, slow on the uptake, dead from the neck up, a brick short of a load, two sandwiches short of a picnic British informal dozy, divvy, daft, not the full shilling Scottish & Northern English informal glaikit North American informal chowderheaded, dumb-ass West Indian informal dotish South African informal dof rare hebete - 1.1predicative Lacking knowledge, information, or awareness about a particular thing.
I was largely ignorant of the effects of radiotherapy school-leavers were ignorant about the range of job opportunities Example sentencesExamples - He invited me to approach his actual conduct at the relevant times on the footing that he was then altogether much more naive and ignorant about these matters.
- This does not mean being ignorant of History or blind to our legacies.
- If not exactly a tabula rasa, I am comparatively ignorant of current scientific knowledge and epistemology.
- This article provided a great deal of information to those ignorant of what Bob Jones stands for, but not enough.
- And so I was very naive and ignorant about publishing and royalties and residuals, which is kind of sweet.
- I can say as a parent that I was often innocent and occasionally deliberately ignorant about the areas of sin in my own life.
- This Australia was impudent, naive and ignorant of the ways of the world; it was yet to put away childish things.
- The bottomline was that I was too naïve and also ignorant of the law.
- Most folks are very ignorant of how scientific knowledge is determined.
- Finally, the existence of civilization allows man to remain innocent or ignorant about his true nature.
- In my view as a health researcher, the medical profession today stands woefully ignorant of dietary knowledge.
- The chapter reads as if Dembski were completely unaware or ignorant of Popper's statements in this regard.
- In the 1970s I will still a relatively young man, and still very naive and ignorant about the UK book trade.
- Even the well informed are ignorant of the extent to which they are subsidised.
- Anyone who claims pubs will go out of business is ill informed or ignorant of the facts.
- And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.
- We need to reach out to our infosec brethren because no security executive can afford to be ignorant of information risk management.
- This was the reason why he had blinded himself originally, due to the shame that he was so blind and ignorant of these mistakes.
- Many of the comments were naive, muddled and ignorant of the realities of international diplomacy.
- He regarded most of the new people as noisy, assertive, and ignorant of maritime knowledge, traditions and courtesy.
Synonyms without knowledge, unaware, unconscious, insensible
2informal Discourteous or rude. this ignorant, pin-brained receptionist Example sentencesExamples - It's ignorant and unmannerly to engage in this practice.
- If you really wanted a friend you wouldn't be so rude and ignorant!
- I think its nothing short of rude and ignorant to attack a site set up to promote young feminism on the basis of ageism, I notice the same people are not attacking it for sexism.
- She'd never been anything but rude and ignorant to Josie, knowing Josie was but an orphan.
- Brighton has the shops and the crowds, but not the hassle of impolite, inconsiderate and downright ignorant London shoppers.
- I'm rude, ignorant, extremely lazy, and like to be told what to think.
- In fact, to some I will appear quite rude, ignorant even.
- Shocked to hear that such an ignorant and crude boy could be her relation, she started to cry.
- ‘Decency’ is to be in a room where people do not offend through crude and ignorant language.
- Really, the only downside was the variety of loud, rude, ignorant and stupid people encountered in duration.
- Not some rude, ignorant, person who appears to have no respect for either his office or the people of Tasmania, and flouts our laws as if he is someone who is immune to them.
- I did complain to my GP once that they were rude and ignorant and he said… ahh they have a very hard job dealing with the druggies and lower classes round here.
- People are stereotyped as rude, ignorant and unhelpful.
- The Dudley are crude, ignorant, violent and much-loved by wrestling fans across the world.
- They were either being rude or ignorant - I'm not sure which one is worse.
- I am irritated by Sylvester's cheap remark about the ‘voice inside his own head’, which is ignorant and rude.
- They were, as a rule, badly dressed, rude and ignorant.
- I hate some of the people at work much more; a few can be really ignorant and rude.
- So often in that wild weekend the questions were rude and ignorant, focusing as they did on the Fab Four's coiffure.
- He was a complete pain, rude, ignorant, arrogant and judgemental.
Synonyms rude, impolite, ill-mannered, bad-mannered, unmannerly, ungracious, discourteous, insensitive, uncivil, ill-humoured, surly, sullen boorish, oafish, loutish, crude, coarse, vulgar, gross 3West Indian Angry or quick-tempered. she could be very ignorant and he had no intention of getting involved in an argument just now I had to walk out before I got ignorant Example sentencesExamples - I is an ignorant crack-a-lacking moron.
Derivatives adverb ˈɪɡn(ə)r(ə)ntli I will never understand whether it was complete inexperience or a heady excitement just to be going to college that allowed me to ignorantly trust my father to handle everything properly. Example sentencesExamples - When he's not yammering ignorantly about the Catholic Faith and struggling to find new ways to square the circle, he's often quite good.
- But once they agreed to partake in this vicious experiment, all of them descended to the level of the worst kind of famewhores: people who will ignorantly sacrifice their dignity to be on television.
- Whereas a month ago I ignorantly fumbled for the light switches, toilets, mugs, photocopier, window locks, phone system and coffee, I now could moonlight giving organised tours.
- But we are ignorantly destroying our own heritage… throwing mud on our own heads!
Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin ignorant- 'not knowing', from the verb ignorare (see ignore). Definition of ignorant in US English: ignorantadjectiveˈiɡnərəntˈɪɡnərənt 1Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated. he was told constantly that he was ignorant and stupid Example sentencesExamples - This is unbelievably patronising, ignorant and plain stupid.
- One of the media's targets is the stupid and ignorant masses.
- I am not ignorant and uneducated however, and I stood by my opinions.
- Now she's always been known to be intellectually smart, but that question was really stupid and ignorant!
- It shows how ignorant, stupid, and irrational you are.
- Conservatives are ignorant, stupid, and evil, or some combination of the three.
- The policy culture sees the community culture as uneducated, ignorant, backward and occasionally comic in its primitive beliefs.
- New Zealanders, it seems, are simply too stupid and ignorant to be able to interpret our own laws properly; instead, we must go offshore.
- In that way, our people can remain ignorant, uneducated and dumb.
- Women were seen as ignorant, illiterate and stupid beings who wanted only to produce children - curbing their fertility was obviously needed.
- I will continue to not know such-and-such if I'm treated like an ignorant, unsophisticated fool.
- Richard lets us know how ignorant and stupid we all are, and why we really need this internet thing.
- I attended university as a mature student and was shocked at how ignorant and uneducated our student population actually is.
- The people are too blind or too uninformed or too uneducated or too ignorant or too whatever to see the threat that faces them because they refuse to take a look at it.
- In my opinion, the US Congress has now revealed itself to be the most dangerous, ignorant and uneducated bunch of morons in the world.
- Born into that family, it was quite likely that he would turn out to be an arrogant, ignorant, stupid young man, and had already given some indication that indeed he is just that.
- How arrogant, how impossibly stupid and just how ignorant are we?
- Looking down from up here I can't decide if I'm looking at ignorant behaviour or stupid behaviour.
- It pains us to see you so ignorant and uneducated, and so eager to place yourselves in bondage.
- In fact you look very stupid and ignorant, especially those who attend tertiary-level institutions and are supposed to know better.
Synonyms uneducated, unknowledgeable, untaught, unschooled, untutored, untrained, illiterate, unlettered, unlearned, unread, uninformed, unenlightened, unscholarly, unqualified, benighted, backward - 1.1predicative Lacking knowledge, information, or awareness about a particular thing.
they were ignorant of astronomy Example sentencesExamples - He regarded most of the new people as noisy, assertive, and ignorant of maritime knowledge, traditions and courtesy.
- He invited me to approach his actual conduct at the relevant times on the footing that he was then altogether much more naive and ignorant about these matters.
- We need to reach out to our infosec brethren because no security executive can afford to be ignorant of information risk management.
- Even the well informed are ignorant of the extent to which they are subsidised.
- This article provided a great deal of information to those ignorant of what Bob Jones stands for, but not enough.
- Finally, the existence of civilization allows man to remain innocent or ignorant about his true nature.
- And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.
- Most folks are very ignorant of how scientific knowledge is determined.
- This does not mean being ignorant of History or blind to our legacies.
- This was the reason why he had blinded himself originally, due to the shame that he was so blind and ignorant of these mistakes.
- If not exactly a tabula rasa, I am comparatively ignorant of current scientific knowledge and epistemology.
- And so I was very naive and ignorant about publishing and royalties and residuals, which is kind of sweet.
- Many of the comments were naive, muddled and ignorant of the realities of international diplomacy.
- Anyone who claims pubs will go out of business is ill informed or ignorant of the facts.
- I can say as a parent that I was often innocent and occasionally deliberately ignorant about the areas of sin in my own life.
- The bottomline was that I was too naïve and also ignorant of the law.
- The chapter reads as if Dembski were completely unaware or ignorant of Popper's statements in this regard.
- In my view as a health researcher, the medical profession today stands woefully ignorant of dietary knowledge.
- In the 1970s I will still a relatively young man, and still very naive and ignorant about the UK book trade.
- This Australia was impudent, naive and ignorant of the ways of the world; it was yet to put away childish things.
Synonyms without knowledge, unaware, unconscious, insensible - 1.2informal Discourteous or rude.
this ignorant, pin-brained receptionist Example sentencesExamples - Brighton has the shops and the crowds, but not the hassle of impolite, inconsiderate and downright ignorant London shoppers.
- I think its nothing short of rude and ignorant to attack a site set up to promote young feminism on the basis of ageism, I notice the same people are not attacking it for sexism.
- They were, as a rule, badly dressed, rude and ignorant.
- I hate some of the people at work much more; a few can be really ignorant and rude.
- Shocked to hear that such an ignorant and crude boy could be her relation, she started to cry.
- ‘Decency’ is to be in a room where people do not offend through crude and ignorant language.
- I am irritated by Sylvester's cheap remark about the ‘voice inside his own head’, which is ignorant and rude.
- Really, the only downside was the variety of loud, rude, ignorant and stupid people encountered in duration.
- People are stereotyped as rude, ignorant and unhelpful.
- So often in that wild weekend the questions were rude and ignorant, focusing as they did on the Fab Four's coiffure.
- They were either being rude or ignorant - I'm not sure which one is worse.
- She'd never been anything but rude and ignorant to Josie, knowing Josie was but an orphan.
- The Dudley are crude, ignorant, violent and much-loved by wrestling fans across the world.
- I did complain to my GP once that they were rude and ignorant and he said… ahh they have a very hard job dealing with the druggies and lower classes round here.
- If you really wanted a friend you wouldn't be so rude and ignorant!
- Not some rude, ignorant, person who appears to have no respect for either his office or the people of Tasmania, and flouts our laws as if he is someone who is immune to them.
- In fact, to some I will appear quite rude, ignorant even.
- It's ignorant and unmannerly to engage in this practice.
- He was a complete pain, rude, ignorant, arrogant and judgemental.
- I'm rude, ignorant, extremely lazy, and like to be told what to think.
Synonyms rude, impolite, ill-mannered, bad-mannered, unmannerly, ungracious, discourteous, insensitive, uncivil, ill-humoured, surly, sullen - 1.3West Indian Angry or quick-tempered.
she could be very ignorant and he had no intention of getting involved in an argument just now I had to walk out before I got ignorant Example sentencesExamples - I is an ignorant crack-a-lacking moron.
Origin Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin ignorant- ‘not knowing’, from the verb ignorare (see ignore). |