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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
He will ban reporters, investigate them and otherwise silence them as he installs tariffs, rounds up immigrants and happily flushes fluoride from our water – making “Dr. Strangelove” that much closer to reality while eclipsing “Idiocracy” in its ignorant futility.
Jackson, they wrote, was “ignorant, inexperienced” and a “man of no labor, no patience . . . wholly unqualified by education, habit and temper for the station of the president.”
This "ignorant and colonial attitude", wrote Indrajit Samarajiva in 2023, was "more about making white people feel good than helping anyone".
Speaking to Salon, these experts reiterated one theme over and over again: This was an election between science and ignorance of science, and the ignorant side — which serves special interest groups like the fossil fuel industry — have prevailed.
What's sad is that Trump and his allies don't even hide how much they think his voters are ignorant and deluded.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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