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ignorant

//ˈɪɡ.nə.ɹənt//

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Note for ignorant

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Forms

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

Comparative
ignoranter
Superlative
ignorantest

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
ignorants

Definitions

Adjective

A word that describes or modifies a noun or pronoun.

  1. 1.Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.

    • The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without an heart?
  2. 2.Not knowing (a fact or facts), unaware (of something).

    • That night he slept the sleep of happiness, blissfully ignorant that he had placed the letters in the wrong envelopes.
  3. 3.Ill-mannered, crude.(slang)

    • His manner was at best off-hand, at worst totally ignorant.
  4. 4.Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.One who is ignorant.

Frequency

Overall

Rare· #4831

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Rare
Academic
Rare
Literature
Rare

Etymology

From Old French ignorant, from Latin ignōrāns (“unaware, unknowing”).

By surface analysis, ignore + -ant.

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