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ignorant
adjective as in unaware, unknowing
Strongest matches
illiterate, innocent, naive, oblivious, obtuse, uneducated, uninformed
Weak matches
apprenticed, benighted, birdbrained, blind to, cretinous, dense, green, imbecilic, in the dark, inexperienced, insensible, mindless, misinformed, moronic, nescient, shallow, thick, unconscious, unconversant, uncultivated, uncultured, unenlightened, uninitiated, unintellectual, unknowledgeable, unlearned, unlettered, unmindful, unread, unschooled, unsuspecting, untaught, untrained, unwitting, witless
Example Sentences
That’s a reference to the Dunning-Kruger effect — you know, the tendency of those willfully or unalterably ignorant to vastly overestimate their abilities and/or intelligence.
Students are encouraged to despise their society and kept ignorant of anything that might make them think otherwise.
He mocked Senator John Kennedy, a candidate for U.S. president, calling him a “millionaire, illiterate and ignorant.”
Duane Roberts made millions off a food he was initially wholly ignorant of: the humble burrito.
“It felt like I had the space to be a beginner and the space to be ignorant.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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