adj
Meaning 1
Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ignorant
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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adj
Meaning 2
Not knowing (a fact or facts), unaware (of something).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1851, Walt Whitman, “Art and Artists” in Emory Holloway (editor), The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921, Volume 1, p. 242, [...] perhaps it is sometimes the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Ill-mannered, crude.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Examples
- His manner was at best off-hand, at worst totally ignorant.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 4
Unknown; undiscovered
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Examples
- 1845, Robert Browning, letter addressed to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, cited in Percy Lubbock, Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Her Letters, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1906, Chapter 4, p. 106, [...] as to you, your goodness and understanding will always see to the bottom of involuntary or ignorant faults—always help me to correct them.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 5
Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
One who is ignorant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- she is ignorant of quantum mechanics
- he is musically illiterate
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: illiterate
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 8
uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an ignorant man
- nescient of contemporary literature
- an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues
- exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nescient, unlearned, unlettered
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 9
unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he was completely ignorant of the circumstances
- an unknowledgeable assistant
- his rudeness was unwitting
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: unknowledgeable, unknowing, unwitting
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From Old French ignorant, from Latin ignōrāns (“unaware, unknowing”). By surface analysis, ignore + -ant.
Across languages
Translations
106 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Albanian: injorant — characterized by ignorance
- Arabic: جَاهِل (jāhil) — characterized by ignorance
- Arabic: جاهل (gāhil) — characterized by ignorance
- Arabic: جاهل (jāhil) — characterized by ignorance
- Armenian: տգետ (tget) — characterized by ignorance
- Armenian: անգրագետ (angraget) — characterized by ignorance
- Asturian: inorante — characterized by ignorance
- Azerbaijani: cahil — characterized by ignorance
- Bashkir: наҙан (naźan) — characterized by ignorance
- Basque: ezjakin — characterized by ignorance
- Belarusian: не́вуцкі (njévucki) — characterized by ignorance
- Belarusian: неадукава́ны (njeadukavány) — characterized by ignorance
- Belarusian: нягра́матны (njahrámatny) — characterized by ignorance
- Belarusian: няпісьме́нны (njapisʹmjénny) — characterized by ignorance
- Belarusian: цёмны (cjómny) — characterized by ignorance
- Bulgarian: негра́мотен (negrámoten) — characterized by ignorance
- Bulgarian: необразо́ван (neobrazóvan) — characterized by ignorance
- Bulgarian: неу́к (neúk) — characterized by ignorance
- Catalan: ignorant — characterized by ignorance
- Chinese Mandarin: 無知 /无知 (wúzhī) — characterized by ignorance
- Czech: ignorantský — characterized by ignorance
- Czech: nevzdělaný — characterized by ignorance
- Czech: neznalý — characterized by ignorance
- Dutch: onwetend — characterized by ignorance
- Dutch: ignorant — characterized by ignorance
- Esperanto: malklera — characterized by ignorance
- Finnish: tietämätön — characterized by ignorance
- Finnish: moukka — characterized by ignorance
- French: ignorant — characterized by ignorance
- Galician: ignorante — characterized by ignorance
- German: ignorant — characterized by ignorance
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍆𐍂𐍉𐌸𐍃 (unfrōþs) — characterized by ignorance
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐍅𐌴𐌹𐍃 (unweis) — characterized by ignorance
- Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽𐌳𐍃 (unkunnands) — characterized by ignorance
- Greek: αδαής (adaḯs) — characterized by ignorance
- Ancient Greek: ἀμαθής (amathḗs) — characterized by ignorance
- Hindi: अज्ञान (ajñān) — characterized by ignorance
- Hindi: गँवार (gãvār) — characterized by ignorance
- Hungarian: tudatlan — characterized by ignorance
- Hungarian: tájékozatlan — characterized by ignorance
- Indonesian: bebal — characterized by ignorance
- Irish: ainbhiosach — characterized by ignorance
- Irish: aibéiseach — characterized by ignorance
- Italian: ignorante — characterized by ignorance
- Japanese: 疎い (utoi) — characterized by ignorance
- Japanese: 無知な (muchi na) — characterized by ignorance
- Kazakh: бейхабар (beixabar) — characterized by ignorance
- Khmer: ល្ងង់ខ្លៅ (lngŭəng khlaw) — characterized by ignorance
- Korean: 무지하다 (mujihada) — characterized by ignorance
- Korean: 무식하다 (musikhada) — characterized by ignorance
- Korean: 무학하다 (muhakhada) — characterized by ignorance
- Korean: 배운 데 없다 (bae'un de eopda) — characterized by ignorance
- Korean: 멍청하다 (meongcheonghada) — characterized by ignorance
- Central Kurdish: نەزان (nezan) — characterized by ignorance
- Northern Kurdish: nezan — characterized by ignorance
- Latin: inscītus — characterized by ignorance
- Latin: ignārus — characterized by ignorance
- Latin: ignōrāns — characterized by ignorance
- Macedonian: не́ук (néuk) — characterized by ignorance
- Macedonian: необра́зован (neobrázovan) — characterized by ignorance
- Macedonian: не́писмен (népismen) — characterized by ignorance
- Macedonian: непро́светен (neprósveten) — characterized by ignorance
- Macedonian: негра́мотен (negrámoten) — characterized by ignorance
- Malay: jahil — characterized by ignorance
- Malayalam: പാമരൻ (pāmaraṉ) — characterized by ignorance
- Middle English: bestial — characterized by ignorance
- Norman: innouothant — characterized by ignorance
- Norwegian Bokmål: uvitende — characterized by ignorance
- Occitan: ignorant — characterized by ignorance
- Old English: unġewiss — characterized by ignorance
- Persian: نادان (nâdân) — characterized by ignorance
- Persian: عامی ('âmi) — characterized by ignorance
- Polish: ignorancki — characterized by ignorance
- Portuguese: ignorante — characterized by ignorance
- Punjabi: ਬੇਖਬਰ (bekhbar) — characterized by ignorance
- Romanian: ignorant — characterized by ignorance
- Russian: неве́жественный (nevéžestvennyj) — characterized by ignorance
- Russian: необразо́ванный (neobrazóvannyj) — characterized by ignorance
- Russian: негра́мотный (negrámotnyj) — characterized by ignorance
- Russian: тёмный (tjómnyj) — characterized by ignorance
- Scottish Gaelic: ainfhiosach — characterized by ignorance
- Scottish Gaelic: ainfhiosrach — characterized by ignorance
- Slovak: nevzdelaný — characterized by ignorance
- Slovene: neveden — characterized by ignorance
- Spanish: ignorante — characterized by ignorance
- Spanish: ignaro — characterized by ignorance
- Spanish: desentendido — characterized by ignorance
- Spanish: nesciente — characterized by ignorance
- Spanish: chúntaro — characterized by ignorance
- Spanish: inculto — characterized by ignorance
- Swedish: ovetande — characterized by ignorance
- Swedish: okunnig — characterized by ignorance
- Tagalog: bano — characterized by ignorance
- Tagalog: mangmang — characterized by ignorance
- Turkish: cahil — characterized by ignorance
- Ukrainian: не́уцький (néucʹkyj) — characterized by ignorance
- Ukrainian: неосві́чений (neosvíčenyj) — characterized by ignorance
- Ukrainian: неодуко́ваний (neodukóvanyj) — characterized by ignorance
- Ukrainian: неписьме́нний (nepysʹménnyj) — characterized by ignorance
- Ukrainian: негра́мотний (nehrámotnyj) — characterized by ignorance
- Ukrainian: те́мний (témnyj) — characterized by ignorance
- Vietnamese: ngu dốt — characterized by ignorance
- Vietnamese: dốt nát — characterized by ignorance
- Vietnamese: mù chữ — characterized by ignorance
- Welsh: anwybodus — characterized by ignorance
- Esperanto: senscia — unaware