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Ignorant   /ˈɪgnərənt/   Listen
Ignorant

adjective
1.
Uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication.  Synonyms: nescient, unlearned, unlettered.  "Nescient of contemporary literature" , "An unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues" , "Exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"
2.
Uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field.  Synonym: illiterate.  "He is musically illiterate"
3.
Unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge.  Synonyms: unknowing, unknowledgeable, unwitting.  "An unknowledgeable assistant" , "His rudeness was unwitting"



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"Ignorant" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Arcadians accounted Pelasgus the first man, and that he was their first King; and taught the ignorant people to built houses, for defending themselves from heat, and cold, and rain; and to make them garments of skins; and instead of herbs and roots, which were sometimes noxious, to eat the acorns of the beech tree; and that his son Lycaon built the oldest city in all Greece: he ...
— The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended • Isaac Newton

... judge then," Mr. Longdon began; "I'm no critic; I'm no talker myself. I'm old-fashioned and narrow and ignorant. I've lived for years in a hole. I'm not a man of ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James

... organisation.[61][E] The principal aim of the "Alliance Israelite Universelle"—the all-round triumph of anti-Christian and anti-monarchist Jewry (which has already taken practical possession of France) by means of Socialism which is to serve as a bait for the ignorant masses—could not but find the State system of Russia—a land of peasants, Orthodoxy and monarchism—an obstacle in its path. Hence the fight against the existing Government, which was started with consummate calculation at the ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf

... subjects. Their feelings should not be rudely wounded. The better and more thoughtful members of the tribe will at last converse freely on these subjects with those in whom they have learned to place confidence. The stories of ignorant white men and camp attaches should be wholly discarded, and all accounts should be composed of things actually observed, and of relations made by ...
— An introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians • H. C. Yarrow

... quite missing the point. She was talking lightly on the surface of things, wholly ignorant of the depths beneath her feet, intuition with her having ...
— Jimbo - A Fantasy • Algernon Blackwood


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