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unconsciousness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obliviousness, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vertiginousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dizziness |
| Synonyms: | befuddlement, bewilderment, distraction, gauze, giddiness, glaze, haze, lala-land, lightheadedness, maze, muddledness, nadaville, narcosis, shock, stupefaction, stupor, trance, vertigo, wooziness |
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| Main Entry: | astonishment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abracadabrant, agape, aghast, all agog, awe, consterned, donnered, extonious, frappant, inconceivable, incredible, indescribable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, inimaginable, like a duck in thunder, lost in amazement, lost in astonishment, lost in wonder, marvelous, miraculous, mirandous, monstrous, moon, nefandous, open, passing strange, planet, selcouth, spell, strange, striking, stupendous, surprised, surprising, thunderstruck, unable to believe one's senses, unexpected, unheard of, unimaginable, unspeakable, unutterable, wonder, wonderful
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| Main Entry: | ignorance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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a stranger to, absent, addle, anile, apish, asinine, at fault, at sea, at the end of his tether, babbling, babish, babyish, beef, beetle, belated, benighted, bewildered, bigoted, blatant, blinded, blindfold, blockish, blunder, blunt, boeotic, bookless, bovine, brainless, caught tripping, childish, childlike, clod, dansey, dimsighted, diverted, doltish, driveling, dull, dull, dull as a beetle, eccentric, empty, empty, fat, fat, feeble, frivolous, giddy, glaikit, gratuitous, green, gross, half, having no head, heavy, hoodwinked, idiotic, idle, ignorant, ill, ill, ill, impalpable, improper, in the dark, inapprehensible, inapt, incogitable, incogitant, inconsiderate, inconsistent, indocible, inept, inexpedient, infantile, infantine, injudicious, insensate, insipient, insulse, irrational, lack, maggoty, misinformed, muddle, narrow, nonsensical, not bright, not to be thought of, novel, obtuse, off one's mind, parviscient, pedantic, philistine, pig, puerile, puzzle, reasonless, ridiculous, rude, sappy, senseless, shallow, shallow, short, silly, simple, sleeveless, sottish, spoony, stolid, stupid, superficial, thick, unacquainted, unapprehended, unapprized, unascertained, unaware, unbookish, unconscious, unconsidered, unconversant, uncultivated, undiscerning, undreamt of, uneducated, unendowed with reason, unenlightened, unexplained, unexplored, ungifted, unguided, unheard of, unideal, uninformed, uninitiated, uninstructed, unintellectual, unintelligent, uninvestigated, unknowing, unknown, unlearned, unlettered, unoccupied, unperceived, unphilosophical, unread, unreasonable, unschooled, untaught, unteachable, unthinking, unthought of, untutored, unversed, unweeting, unwise, unwitting, useless, vacant, vacuous, wanting, wantwit, weak, weak, weak in the upper story, weetless, without reason, witless
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| Main Entry: | surprise |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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anoetic, blutterbunged, ferly, gloppened, imprevisible, inattentive, inopinate, mirific, serendipitous, startling, struck, sudden, surprised, unanticipated, unaware, unexpected, unforeseen, unwarned
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| Concept: | Ignorance. |
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ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa, crass ignorance, ignorance crasse; unacquaintance; unconsciousness; darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity., unknown quantities, x, y, z., sealed book, terra incognita, virgin soil, unexplored ground; dark ages., [Imperfect knowledge] smattering, sciolism, glimmering; bewilderment (uncertainty); incapacity., [Affectation of knowledge] pedantry; charlatanry, charlatism; Philister, Philistine.
-verbs
be ignorant; not know; know not, know not what, know nothing of; have no idea, have no notion, have no conception; not have the remotest idea; not know chalk from cheese., ignore, be blind to; keep in ignorance (conceal)., see through a glass darkly; have a film over the eyes, have a glimmering; wonder whether; not know what to make of (unintelligibility); not pretend to take upon, not take upon one self to say.
-adjectives
ignorant; nescient; unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprized, unwitting, unweeting, unconscious; witless, weetless; a stranger to; unconversant., uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored, unschooled, misguided, unenglightened; Phillistine; behind the age., shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate; unread, uninformed, uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-headed; pedantic;, in the dark; benighted, belated; blinded, blindfolded; hoodwinked; misinformed; au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault; at sea (uncertain); caught tripping., unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated, unexplored, unheard of, not perceived; concealed; novel.
-adverbs
ignorantly; unawares; for anything, for aught one knows; not that one knows.
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"ignorance never settles a question" [Disraeli]; quantum animis erroris inest! [Ovid]; "small Latin and less Greek" [B. Jonson]; "that unlettered small-knowing soul" [Love's Labor's Lost]; "there is no darkness but
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| Antonyms: | knowledge |
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| Concept: | Uncertainty. |
| Category: | Degrees of Evidence |
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uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness; dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness., hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment; timidity (fear); vacillation; diaporesis, indetermination., vagueness; haze, fog; obscurity (darkness); ambiguity (double meaning); contingency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question (question); onus probandi; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission., precariousness; fallibility.
-verbs
be uncertain; wonder whether., lose the clue, lose the clew, scent; miss one's way., not know what to make of (unintelligibility), not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels; float in a sea of doubt, hesitate, flounder; lose oneself, lose one's head; muddle one's brains., render uncertain; put out, pose, puzzle, perplex, embarrass; confuse, confound; bewilder, bother, molder, addle the wits, throw off the scent, ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces; keep in suspense., doubt (disbelieve); hang in the balance, tremble in the balance; depend.
-adjectives
uncertain; casual; random (aimless); changeable., doubtful, dubious; indecisive; unsettled, undecided, undetermined; in suspense, open to discussion; controvertible; in question (inquiry)., vague; indeterminate, indefinite; ambiguous, equivocal; undefined, undefinable; confused (indistinct); mystic, oracular; dazed., perplexing; enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical, hypothetical; experimental., fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable, disputable; unreliable, untrustworthy.
-adverbs
pendente lite; sub spe rati.
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Heaven knows; who can tell? who shall decide when doctors disagree? ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces.
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| Antonyms: | certainty |
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| Concept: | Wonder. |
| Category: | 4. Contemplative Affections |
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wonder, marvel; astonishment, amazement, wonderment, bewilderment; amazedness; admiration, awe; stupor, stupefaction; stound, fascination; sensation; surprise (inexpectation)., note of admiration; thaumaturgy(sorcery).
-verbs
wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised; start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank (disappointment); tomber des nues; not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses., not be able to account for (unintelligible); not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels., surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare., take by surprise (be unexpected)., be wonderful; beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description; stagger belief.
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surprised; aghast, all agog, breathless, agape; open-mouthed; awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck; spellbound; lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment; struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder., wonderful, wondrous; surprising; unexpected; unheard of; mysterious (inexplicable); miraculous. indescribable, inexpressible, ineffable; unutterable, unspeakable., monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable, unimaginable; strange (uncommon); passing strange., striking; overwhelming; wonder-working.
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wonderfully; fearfully; for a wonder, in the name of wonder; strange to say; mirabile dictu, mirabile visu; to one's great surprise., with wonder, with gaping mouth; with open eyes, with upturned eyes.
-phrases
vox faucibus haesit; one's hair standing on end.
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| Antonyms: | expectance (absence of wonder) |
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