ignorant

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English Vietnamese dictionary

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Advanced English dictionary

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+ adjective
1 ~ (of / about sth) lacking knowledge or information about sth; not educated: an ignorant person / question + He's completely ignorant about modern technology. + At that time I was ignorant of events going on elsewhere. + Never make your students feel stupid or ignorant.
2 (informal) with very bad manners: a rude, ignorant person
ignorantly adverb

Thesaurus dictionary

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adj.

1 unknowing, uninformed, untaught, uneducated, unschooled, unread, unlearned, unlettered, illiterate:

Is there anyone so ignorant as not to know who the Duke of Wellington was?

2 unaware, unfamiliar, unconscious, benighted, unenlightened, unwitting, in the dark, oblivious, Formal nescient:

She knows many things about which we are ignorant.

3 inexperienced, green, naïve, innocent, unsophisticated:

They used to tease ignorant young apprentices by sending them to find a left-handed hammer

4 uncouth, ill-mannered, discourteous, impolite, uncivil, boorish:

Don't be so ignorant and open the door for the lady!

Collocation dictionary

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VERBS

appear, be, feel, seem | remain

The general public remained totally ignorant of the danger.

| keep sb

We were kept ignorant of the facts.

ADV.

completely, entirely, pig

(informal),

quite, totally, utterly, very, wholly

Don't ask Paul. He's pig ignorant.

| largely | rather | blissfully

We went to bed that night blissfully ignorant of the storm to come.

| grossly, lamentably, woefully

PREP.

about

He was completely ignorant about the country's political system.

| of

We are still woefully ignorant of the causes of this disease.

Concise English dictionary

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'ɪgnərənt
adj.
+uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
+uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
+unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge