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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | flighty, scatterbrained |
| Synonyms: | brainless, dizzy, featherbrained, frivolous, giddy, harebrained, ignorant, illiterate, inane, know-nothing, silly, skittish, stupid, uneducated, unschooled, untaught, vacant, vacuous |
| Antonyms: | cognizant, intelligent, sensible, slick, smart |
| Main Entry: | ignoramus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | simpleton |
| Synonyms: | blockhead, dimwit, dunce, fool, idiot, imbecile, know-nothing, moron, numbskull |
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| Concept: | Ignoramus. |
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-nouns
ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar., sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre., greenhorn (dupe); novice, tyro (learner); numskull., lubber (bungler); fool; pedant.
-adjectives
bookless, shallow; ignorant.
-phrases
"a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits" [Pope].
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| Antonyms: | scholar |
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