IGNORANT


Meaning of IGNORANT in English

adjective

1.

lacking knowledge or education

an ignorant boy with no taste for school

Synonyms: benighted, empty-headed, illiterate, know-nothing, rude, uneducated, uninstructed, unlettered, unschooled, untaught, untutored

Related Word: lowbrow, uncultured, unintellectual; callow, green, inexperienced; crude, gross, raw, uncouth; ingenuous, naive, simple, unsophisticated

Contrasted words: educated, erudite, learned, literate

2.

lacking information on or awareness of something

was ignorant of the circumstances surrounding the affair

Synonyms: incognizant, inconversant, oblivious, unacquainted, unaware, unfamiliar, uninformed, uninstructed, unknowing, unwitting

Idioms: in the dark

Contrasted words: aware, conscious, conversant, informed, knowing, knowledgeable

3.

Synonyms: backward 5, benighted, unenlightened, unprogressive

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