ignorant
uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,047 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 8,722 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.004% of every word in the library.
What it means
adjective
- uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication also: nescient, unlearned, unlettered an ignorant mannescient of contemporary literature
- uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field also: illiterate she is ignorant of quantum mechanicshe is musically illiterate
- unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge also: unknowledgeable, unknowing, unwitting he was completely ignorant of the circumstancesan unknowledgeable assistant
ignorant in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I must be ignorant of your movements.
Representative Plays by American Dramatists — Love in '76 · Oliver Bell Bunce · Chapter 1
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Cecilia is very ignorant of England; you could not be with her.
Back to Billabong · Mary Grant Bruce · Chapter 1
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Who is their so ignorant as not to judge of my dreadful condition?
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1
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He confessed to have received a most imperfect education, and declared himself quite ignorant of life.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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As for other studies, of geography and history and cyphering, she was almost completely ignorant of them.
The Dream · Émile Zola · Chapter 1