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ignorant English

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What does ignorant mean?
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ignorant

If you are ignorant, you don't know many things that you should know. They always made her feel like some kind of ignorant fool. If you are ignorant of something, you don't know about it. The doctors kept her ignorant of the true nature of her disease. They're not criminals, just now to the country and ignorant of American laws. These children with no parents grow up ignorant about their own history, about their own birth. If an idea, a book, a comment, etc. is ignorant, it is rude or incorrect because it ignores the facts. Did you really think his ignorant comments were so funny?

ignorant

(= nescient, unlearned, unlettered) uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication an ignorant man nescient of contemporary literature an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions (= illiterate) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field she is ignorant of quantum mechanics he is musically illiterate (= unknowledgeable, unwitting) unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge he was completely ignorant of the circumstances an unknowledgeable assistant his rudeness was unwitting

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Simple sentences

He is rude and ignorant and people avoid him.
They're totally ignorant.
He is ignorant of the world.
I was entirely ignorant of the matter.
I am quite ignorant of French.
He was ignorant of the fact that the town had been destroyed.
She is ignorant of the world.
I never know what to say to people who have absolutely no grasp of the basic facts and are too ignorant to realise it.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.
Blessed are the ignorant.
I just realized that I'm quite ignorant about the world.
My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.
Popular lectures are the easiest to listen to, but they are necessarily both superficial and misleading, since they have to be graded to the comprehension of an ignorant audience.
I was ignorant of his plan.
Many economists are ignorant of that fact.
He is entirely ignorant of the world.
She is ignorant of even the simplest facts about science.
There is no freedom for the ignorant.
There are more ignorant people than wise people, and even in the wise people there is more ignorance then wisdom.
You're totally ignorant.
Racist people are ignorant.
He's rude, arrogant and ignorant.
If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasure of illusion.
Ignorant ignorance is when not only do you not know something, but you don't even know that you don't know it.

Movie subtitles

I think we are currently ignorant, actually, about the real realistic diversity of life elsewhere.
What an ignorant bunch.
What's the idea of calling them ignorant, anyway?
If you had a son tricked into marrying such a woman, would you wish to remain ignorant of it?
And a whole day's work ruined by a foolish, ignorant woman!
Ignorant?
Who's ignorant?
You know how ignorant I am.
Oh! They're all silly and ignorant like most girls.
How clever of you, my dear Miss Bingley, to know something of which you are ignorant.
Matter of fact, I'm the most ignorant man in the world except with bulls.
You told me your name, Mr. Kane, but I'm awfully ignorant.
The rest of you, with the exception of this malignant jerk, are ignorant of the facts, and, therefore, confused.
Apart from them, sloganeers, those ignorant of everything, who don't know the history of their country, nothing of world history, nothing of politics, nothing of philosophy. nothing!
But I won't do it for Swiss or Austrian settlers! Those ignorant drunks!
You want them to stay ignorant so you can dominate them.
You must take me for a dolt, ignorant of life, naive and silly.
Are you entirely ignorant of the proper procedure of the court?
Most happily ignorant up to now.
They're so ignorant.
We ignorant Southerners simply expect a gentleman to go by his raising.
My zing, don't they educate women up North? She's just plain ignorant.
You stupid, ignorant drunkards, you!
The Jewish soldier suffered a loss of memory and remained in hospital for years, ignorant of the change in Tomainia.
I never heard such an ignorant girl in all my life.
Don't be so ignorant.
My boss Pazar cannot speak english and he cannot write, he is ignorant.
You, ignorant crook, a deadbeat!
Ignorant clods!
I don't wanna die ignorant.
Ignorant, nasty, spoiling the open range. with their measly fences.
Thy letters have transported me beyond this ignorant present, and I feel now the future in the instant.
This is not a costume, ignorant wench.
You well-bred young ladies come to us ignorant and pure.
It's a conspiracy to keep you just as you are, nice and ignorant.
What were you thinking, Martin, you ignorant!

News and current affairs

Not only is the public almost entirely ignorant of the EU's policy agenda for boosting competitiveness, economic growth, and employment, but this ignorance extends to many intellectuals, academics, CEO's, and even some MP's.
The prosperous region was the Islamic Middle East, while an ignorant Europe remained poor.
This response to homegrown problems plays well with voters, but it is ridiculous and ignorant, especially since the US has been depending on China to help finance the fiscal deficits.
Blix, naive and relatively ignorant about technical details -- his field is international law -- is easily mislead.
Journalists seem especially ignorant.
He is loud, crude, ignorant about most things, and looks absurd in his puffed up blond comb-over hairdo.
So we must cease being ignorant and reactive, and become informed and proactive.
STANFORD - People have a right to be ignorant.
In other words, we are far more ignorant than we realize.
They are ignorant, poor, and sick.
Are bank managers ignorant?
But this is the ignorant boasting of a rich country that fails to comprehend the situation on the ground.
It is not something manufactured by Thaksin. Nor are the peasants so ignorant to be easily conned by a crafty politician promising much delivering little or none.
There was a time when global elites could comfort themselves with the thought that opposition to the world trading regime consisted of violent anarchists, self-serving protectionists, trade unionists, and ignorant, if idealistic youth.
Indeed, the war against the arts and humanities in the US coincided with the emergence of an increasingly ignorant and passive population and a government that serves at the pleasure of corporate interests.
If today's conservative political forces remain in power, the dark, dangerous, and ignorant past is where England - and other Western countries - risks returning.
The problem is that others are abysmally ignorant about the continent's pre-colonial past.
World leaders appear partly ignorant and partly deceptive in responding to the allegations.
So she remained ignorant, as did her physicians - with possible ramifications for her clinical care.
We are ignorant masses awash in information.
In that process, underestimating Libyan diplomacy, shrewdness and negotiating skills is the folly of the ignorant.
Making matters worse, irresponsible and ignorant celebrities have seized upon his lies, using their access to the media to spread conspiracy theories and propaganda against vaccinations.

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