1
as in uneducated
lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books
they may be poor, ignorant farmers, but they are not stupid
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2
as in unaware
not informed about or aware of something
he was ignorant of their wedding plans
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Recent Examples of ignorant
Cruel kids — or cruel and ignorant.
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E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
But there are also Black folks who are ignorant of this.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
The pilot has moments both sweet and funny, and sets up the possibility of romance amongst the characters, as well as further high jinks from a rotating cast of license seekers and citizens ignorant of the requirements for a Real ID.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
At the time, central Appalachia was widely depicted in the popular press as a backward, ignorant region whose mountainous terrain kept its people isolated, outside the flow of progress – a stereotype still common today.
—The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
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E. Alex Jung, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2025
But there are also Black folks who are ignorant of this.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
The pilot has moments both sweet and funny, and sets up the possibility of romance amongst the characters, as well as further high jinks from a rotating cast of license seekers and citizens ignorant of the requirements for a Real ID.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 11 Oct. 2025
At the time, central Appalachia was widely depicted in the popular press as a backward, ignorant region whose mountainous terrain kept its people isolated, outside the flow of progress – a stereotype still common today.
—The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ignorant
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Which is to say, this isn’t the story of a greedy, materialistic man who suffers a crisis of conscience while trying to pry a priceless treasure away from an uneducated hick who doesn’t know any better.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
29 Oct. 2025
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The people who looked Indigenous were the uneducated characters, the cartoon characters.—
Abbey White,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Oct. 2025
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Dumb and Dumber Two incredibly stupid friends embark on a cross-country road trip to return a briefcase full of money, completely unaware that it was meant for criminals.—
Caitlin White,
Variety,
10 Nov. 2025
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Hundreds of companies, frequently unaware of the workings of satellite communications systems, were sending their data via those satellites without end-to-end encryption, which is a standard in today's secure internet communication.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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Bo Nix and the Denver Broncos were looked at by many across the NFL as a dark-horse Super Bowl contender before the season started.—
Mark Kern,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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Sor Juana’s verses confirm that venturing into the dating pool is always like stepping into a dark abyss.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Nov. 2025
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This trend is unsettling, but perhaps more alarming is that large numbers of people could become so oblivious to the upside of vice as to decide that it is better pursued alone.—
Dan Brooks,
The Atlantic,
3 Nov. 2025
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This is not to say that Woody was oblivious to my problems.—
Martha Ross,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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Jokic didn’t overtake Jamal Murray as Denver’s leading scorer until their seventh game of the season, after a 33-point performance Wednesday against a Miami Heat frontcourt that was woefully undersized and inexperienced the instant Bam Adebayo exited with a foot injury.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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Henderson has struggled in that role as a rookie, and Jennings is inexperienced at the pro level.—
Doug Kyed,
Boston Herald,
8 Nov. 2025
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For the chattering women, by contrast, the tool of power is writing; and for people who were almost certainly illiterate, the writing takes on almost magical characteristics.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Oct. 2025
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The vast majority of the population was illiterate.—
Karl Ove Knausgaard,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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In particular, a conviction that the Internet and free trade would attract benighted countries toward liberal democratic capitalism became commonplace.—
BENN STEIL,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Oct. 2025
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One Battle After Another is the rare American film released in these benighted times of ours — with the backing of a major studio, no less — to be clear and insistent in the target of its anger, its despair and its prescriptions for what might make things better.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Sep. 2025
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No untutored voice, nor even sound of rushing car disturbed the seemingly sacred stillness of the hour.—
Erin Alberty,
Axios,
14 Apr. 2025
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His savage, untutored mind suggested no better way than that of wreaking vengeance upon those who had wronged him.—
Liz Tracey,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Feb. 2025
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“Ignorant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ignorant. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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