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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
The level of understanding she had of Alani, and Whitaker’s desire to humanize her, made a character who could have been seen as unrelatable, ignorant or even irritating into a delightfully self-aware fan favorite.
But her remarks were met with a stinging response from Rowling, who dismissed her as "ignorant".
If there was one thing Daddy would say, it was that he didn’t want to raise any “dumb, ignorant children.”
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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