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IGNORANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
Example:
he is musically illiterate
Synonyms:
ignorant; illiterate
Classified under:
Similar:
uneducated (not having a good education)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
Example:
exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions
Synonyms:
ignorant; nescient; unlearned; unlettered
Classified under:
Similar:
uneducated (not having a good education)
Derivation:
ignorance (the lack of knowledge or education)
ignorantness (ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs))
Sense 3
Meaning:
Unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge
Example:
his rudeness was unwitting
Synonyms:
ignorant; unknowing; unknowledgeable; unwitting
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
uninformed (not informed; lacking in knowledge or information)
Derivation:
ignorance (the lack of knowledge or education)
Context examples:
And Jim Hall, on the other hand, did not know that Judge Scott was merely ignorant.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
You know how ignorant I am, and that I only ask for information, but isn't it always so?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“I am very ignorant,” she pleaded.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
They did not quite know what to say or do, as they were ignorant of the amount of my knowledge; so they had to keep on neutral subjects.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
No, replied he, with sudden consciousness, not to find it in YOU; for I cannot be ignorant that to you, to your goodness, I owe it all.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
They crowded in upon him, while he, ignorant of their language, could but clutch the girl with one hand and the parcel with the other, looking wildly about in search of help.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The pirates were too ignorant, I reckon.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Man,” I cried, “how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! Cease; you know not what it is you say.”
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
But, first of all, it was necessary that I should make arrangements for the wife and the son, of whose existence you and my other friends were ignorant.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He could not work blindly, in the dark, ignorant of what he was producing and trusting to chance and the star of his genius that the effect produced should be right and fine.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
