noun
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One who is ignorant.
adjective
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Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
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Not knowing (a fact or facts), unaware (of something).
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Ill-mannered, crude.
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His manner was at best off-hand, at worst totally ignorant.
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Unknown; undiscovered
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Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
Examples of ignorant in a Sentence
He was by no means ignorant of this.
I did not know then what she was doing, for I was quite ignorant of all things.
And why did that ignorant cop pull me over in Alabama?
The interest of the writers is as usual in the religious history; they were indifferent to, or perhaps rather ignorant of, the strict order of events.
Jennifer, ignorant to the significance of the second entrance, expressed little interest in the opening.
Moore was ignorant of their exact position and strength, but he knew that Valladolid had been occupied, and so his first orders were that Baird should fall back to Galicia and Hope to Portugal.
We are totally ignorant as to the extent and number of the pre-Patrician Christian communities in Ireland.
Soon I'll be away from the ocean and the cow-herd masses of ignorant tourists.
Could she actually be that ignorant?
I am totally ignorant in every part of useful knowledge.
Why don't you go away you little ignorant wretch?
So long as feudal monarchy continued, the Church supplied to some extent the deficiencies of the turbulent and ignorant princes by endeavouring to maintain order, administer justice, protect the weak and encourage learning.
It is more probable, however, that these words served the Franks, who were ignorant of Latin, as clues to the general sense of each paragraph of the law.
So far as regards criminal offences, the maxim as to ignorantia juris admits of no exception, even in the case of a foreigner temporarily in England, who is likely to be ignorant of English law.
No, the government thinks it can do things best without us ignorant savages butting in.
The text is filled with valuable information on the state of the family and property in the 6th century, and it is astonishing to find Montesquieu describing the Salic Law as the law of a people ignorant of landed property.
It is still in great demand for certain normal purposes for which either great ease in welding or resistance to corrosion by rusting is of great importance; for purposes requiring special forms of extreme ductility which are not so confidently expected in steel; for miscellaneous needs of many users, some ignorant, some very conservative; and for remelting in the crucible processAll the best cutlery and tool steel is made either by the crucible process or in electric furnaces, and indeed all for which any considerable excellence is claimed is supposed to be so made, though often incorrectly.
Jesus recognized his unique position; he could not be ignorant of his powers.
Are you then still ignorant of what the word gospel means ?
It was a stunning victory by supposedly ' ignorant European peasants ' .
They actually believe that they are taking part in nothing more than a modern mockery of ignorant superstitions from the past.
Does the University of Texas at Dallas pay you to write ignorant political tripe?
And the reason is spiritual sight is a gift from God given to willing faith, not to static determined ignorant willful unbelief.
While we may fear this, " there is no proof that it will, either from the nature of death," of the effect of which on our powers we are altogether ignorant, " or from the analogy of nature, which shows only that the sensible proof of our powers (not the powers themselves) may be destroyed."
They are most common in the north and centre, a circumstance which shows them to be promoted less by the more backward and more ignorant peasants than by the better-educated laborers of Lombardy and Emilia, among whom, Socialist organizations are widespread.
But oppressive, corrupt and inefficient as it was, the government was not confronted by the uncompromising hostility of the whole people; the ignorant priest-ridden masses were either indifferent or of mildly Bourbon sympathies; the opposition was constituted by the educated middle classes and a part of the aobility.
Its lity, indeed, was largely due to the mistakes made by the administration, conducted as this was by officials ignorant of;hern conditions and out of sympathy with a people far more aitive than in any Other part of the peninsula.
There 's that kind of unbelief that 's hard, cold, dead, willing, ignorant unbelief.
The first question he asked his distinguished visitor was ' Father, can we ignorant and unlearned men be saved?
A miracle is not a violation of the laws of Nature except for ignorant people.
Why do n't you go away you little ignorant wretch?
Trusting that one talk geared toward sex education for teens will keep them abstinent until their wedding night is an ignorant way of thinking.
I really hope I never see Somethin again, she's rude obnoxious, loud and ignorant.
Master's Degree or not, that is an uneducated and ignorant statement for anyone to make, much less make on national television.
Mrs. Scott Baio used words that will not be repeated here because they are ignorant and derogatory toward gay women.
In recent years, Nintendo has come under heavy attack from veteran gamers for being "too kiddy", "not serious about video games", or "ignorant of their customers' desires".
I am ambivalent because sometimes he seems ignorant and prejudiced and holds opinions that I cannot identify with or accept.
It's not that Pisces are ignorant - they just have deeper subjects to think about.
While it's true that the lower back can be a very sensuous place for a tat, it would be rather ignorant to make assumptions about a person that you don't really know.
Like anti-Semites elsewhere, the Christian Socialists were reckless and irresponsible, appealing directly to the passions and prejudices of the most ignorant.
They had been converted to Mahommedanism in the early times of the Arab conquest, but their knowledge of Islam did not go much beyond the formula of the creed - "there is no god but God, and Mahomet is the apostle of God," - and they were ignorant of the law.
At present one is inclined to say that he was not altogether ignorant of these arts, but that from want of practice he found it convenient to employ some one else whenever he had anything to write.
Though we know the cost of fencing the lists, from entries in the treasury accounts, we are ignorant of the cause of the quarrel, and even of the clans engaged.
Quite ignorant as to the real state of affairs, he raised the money and sent a nuncio, who never risked himself in Scotland, but made the extraordinary proposal later, that Mary should execute or at least " discourt " her chief advisers.
This, coming on the head of the Rye House murder plot (of which the Rev. Mr Carstairs, the agent of Argyll, and probably Argyll himself, then in Holland, were not ignorant), caused the government to demand, at the hands of the military, from all and sundry, an " Abjuration " of Renwick's anarchist utterances.
We are still ignorant of the causes that determine the associated selection of inherited qualities that go to the making of any individual.
But he opposed the revolutionary innovations dictated by ignorant and popular prejudices.
As a rule, the mestizos of Ecuador are ignorant, indolent and non-progressive.
The statement that he proceeded along the coasts of Europe "from Gades to the Tanais" is evidently based upon the supposition that this would be a simple and direct course along the northern shores of Germany and Scythia - Polybius himself, in common with the other Greek geographers till a much later period, being ignorant of the projection of the Danish or Cimbric peninsula, and the circumnavigation that it involved - of all which no trace is found in the extant notices of Pytheas.
There is ground for supposing that the Phoenicians were not ignorant of the Canaries.