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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



... Until then Morse had only tried his recorder on a few yards of wire, the battery was a single pair of plates, and the electro-magnet was of the elementary sort employed by Moll, and illustrated in the older books. The artist, indeed, was very ignorant of what had been done by other electricians; and Professor Gale was able to enlighten him. When Gale acquainted him with some results in telegraphing obtained by Mr. Barlow, he said he was not aware that anyone had even conceived the notion ...
— Heroes of the Telegraph • J. Munro

... alone we expect protection against all things evil. Of the vote Americans can never have too much—of the vote they can never have enough. The vote is expected by its very touch, suddenly and instantaneously, to produce miraculous changes; it is expected to make the foolish wise, the ignorant knowing, the weak strong, the fraudulent honest. It is expected to turn dross into gold. It is held to be the great educator, not only as regards races, and under the influence of time, which is in a measure true, but as regards individuals and ...
— Female Suffrage • Susan Fenimore Cooper

... long black velvet robe covered with tin-foil ornaments, with which the necromancer was wont to frighten the ignorant and superstitious peasants who came to consult him out of ...
— Jack Harkaway and his son's Escape From the Brigand's of Greece • Bracebridge Hemyng

... reason, Lady Delahaye?" I asked, "why you should not tell me now what you propose to tell Isobel in a year's time? There have been so many mysterious circumstances in connection with this affair that it is hard to come to any decision when one is ignorant of ...
— The Master Mummer • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... very cold, haughty, collected, and self-possessed, and his conversation that of a man who has cultivated his intellect rather in the world than the closet. I mean, that, perfectly ignorant of things, he was driven to converse solely upon persons, and, having imbibed no other philosophy than that which worldly deceits and disappointments bestow, his remarks, though shrewd, were bitterly sarcastic, and partook of all the ill-nature for which a very ...
— The Disowned, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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