ignorant

adjective

1 an ignorant fool:

uneducated, unknowledgeable, untaught, unschooled, untutored, untrained, illiterate, unlettered, unlearned, unread, uninformed, unenlightened, unscholarly, unqualified, benighted, backward;

inexperienced, unworldly, unsophisticated;

unintelligent, stupid, simple, empty-headed, mindless;

informal pig-ignorant, thick, airheaded, dense, dumb, dim, dopey, wet behind the ears, slow on the uptake, dead from the neck up, a brick short of a load, two sandwiches short of a picnic;

British, informal dozy, divvy, daft, not the full shilling, (as) thick as two short planks;

Scottish, & Northern English, informal glaikit;

North American, informal chowderheaded, dumb-ass;

West Indian, informal dotish;

South African, informal dof;

rare hebete.

▷antonyms educated, knowledgeable.

2 I was largely ignorant of the effects of radiotherapy:

without knowledge, unaware, unconscious, insensible;

unfamiliar with, unacquainted with, unconversant with, inexperienced in, uninitiated in, blind to, oblivious to, naive about, innocent about, green about, a stranger to;

uninformed about, unenlightened about, unschooled in;

informal in the dark about, clueless about, not knowing the first thing about, not having the faintest about;

literary nescient, strange to.

▷antonyms knowledgeable about.

3 informal she could be very ignorant, and he had no intention of getting in an argument:

rude, impolite, ill-mannered, bad-mannered, unmannerly, ungracious, discourteous, insensitive, uncivil, ill-humored, surly, sullen;

boorish, oafish, loutish, crude, coarse, vulgar, gross.

▷antonyms polite.

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