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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
"At that time, I was too ignorant to know how wrong that was. Why? Because we no longer live under the Old Testament law but now live under the New Testament."
"I'm both ignorant and confident," he says with wry candour.
Public opinion polls and other research have consistently shown that the average American is very ignorant about global politics.
These shepherds of Shakespeare argued that their efforts were necessary to save the American way from ignorant immigrants who just wouldn’t let go of their native tongues.
He didn't call people with imperfect health the "Untermenschen," but the implication lingered throughout the hearing, as he repeatedly framed them as ignorant, lazy, and parasitical.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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