If you make an ignorant comment, your listeners might laugh at you, might get mad at you, or they might patiently instruct you in the ways that you are uninformed.
Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened.
Adjective S.
used of things; lacking sense or awareness; "ignorant hope"; "fine innocent weather"
Adjective S.
ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge; "ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "musically illiterate"
Adjective S.
lacking general education or knowledge; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"
Adjective S.
lacking information or knowledge; "an unknowledgeable assistant"
Adjective S.
lacking basic knowledge; "how can someone that age be so ignorant?"; "inexperienced and new to the real world"
Adjective
lacking knowledge or skill; "unversed in the jargon of the social scientist"
a.
Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed;
untaught; unenlightened.
a.
Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; -- used with
of.
a.
Unknown; undiscovered.
a.
Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
n.
A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or
unskilled; an ignoramous.
Ignorant
He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides.2.
Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame.3.
Ignorant concealment.
Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?4.
His shipping, Poor ignorant baubles! -- on our terrible seas, Like eggshells moved.
In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than the ears.
In the first ages of Christianity, not only the learned and the wise, but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and death.
Ignorant
Did I for this take pains to teach Our zealous ignorants to preach?
Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened.
A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous.
Usage Examples
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
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Other Usage ExamplesBe careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
I don't know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
I am an agnostic I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?
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