ignorant
adjective /ˈɪɡnərənt/
/ˈɪɡnərənt/
- (often disapproving) not having or showing much knowledge or information about things; not educated
- an ignorant person/question
- Never make your students feel ignorant.
Extra Examples- At that time I was young and ignorant, with little experience of the world.
- Don't ask Paul. He's pig ignorant.
- I decided to continue acting ignorant, just to make fun of her.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- appear
- be
- feel
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- about
- of
- not having any knowledge or information about a particular thing
- ignorant of something At that time I was ignorant of events going on elsewhere.
- ignorant about something He's ignorant about modern technology.
Extra Examples- He was completely ignorant about the country's political system.
- Too many politicians are ignorant about the issues involved.
- I wanted to stay ignorant of my fate for a few more precious hours.
- We were kept ignorant of the facts.
- The general public remained totally ignorant of the danger.
- We are still woefully ignorant of the causes of this disease.
- We went to bed that night blissfully ignorant of the storm to come.
- (informal, disapproving) with very bad manners synonym uncouth
- a rude, ignorant person
- You're behaving like a stupid ignorant child!
Word Originlate Middle English: via Old French from Latin ignorant- ‘not knowing’, from the verb ignorare, from in- ‘not’ + gno-, a base meaning ‘know’.