as in ignorant
not informed about or aware of something
the mayor is clearly uninformed when it comes to the state of the city's schools
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Recent Examples of uninformed
Drug ads often downplay the risks, leading to uninformed decisions.
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
Unlike reckless risk-taking, which is impulsive and uninformed, calculated risk should be strategic and intentional.
—Vikram Joshi, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
The opposing camp would argue that these adjustments to GAAP numbers are opportunistic, and the policy maker must protect the uninformed investors from such opportunism.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
Even the most upstanding, compliant advisor can suffer catastrophic damage if a malicious or uninformed post makes it to the top of the search results.
—Chad Angle, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
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Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2025
Unlike reckless risk-taking, which is impulsive and uninformed, calculated risk should be strategic and intentional.
—Vikram Joshi, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
The opposing camp would argue that these adjustments to GAAP numbers are opportunistic, and the policy maker must protect the uninformed investors from such opportunism.
—Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 14 June 2025
Even the most upstanding, compliant advisor can suffer catastrophic damage if a malicious or uninformed post makes it to the top of the search results.
—Chad Angle, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninformed
Adjective
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Joe is willfully ignorant—to national news and a lethal pandemic—but Aster didn’t write the character as a one-dimensional MAGA standee.—
Madison Bloom,
Pitchfork,
17 July 2025
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Yet Americans are surprisingly ignorant about our past.—
John C. Goodman,
Forbes.com,
29 July 2025
Adjective
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Over one-third of American adults are unaware of HPV or the HPV vaccine, according to a new research letter published Thursday in the journal JAMA Oncology.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
14 Aug. 2025
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Overall, one in three adults nationally are unaware of the connection between HPV and cancer, reveals a study from the MUSC Hollings Cancer Center in South Carolina.—
Hannah Millington,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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She’s been in the news a lot for tone-deaf or oblivious comments.—
Jason P. Frank,
Vulture,
28 July 2025
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Note that the chart’s focus is exclusively on the trade in goods, oblivious to the global trade in services.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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“Uninformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninformed. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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