ignoramus
nounEtymology
After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play Ignoramus by the English playwright George Ruggle; from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know, we are unacquainted with, we are ignorant of”), the first-person plural present active indicative of ignōrō (“to not know, to be unacquainted with, to be ignorant of”).
- derived from playwright George Ruggle; from Latin ignōrāmus — “we do not know, we are unacquainted with, we are ignorant of”
Definitions
A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed
A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
- The problem is that visual ignoramuses, such as this writer, can't think of that many pictures and end up drawing question marks where a frog should be.
- “The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.
- “I am sorry to say your History teacher is an ignoramus! She can’t even spell ‘Bayeux’!”
A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient…
A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.
To make such a ruling against (an indictment).
The neighborhood
- synonymdunce
- synonymignoramus
- synonymjay
- synonymknow-nothing
- synonymlack-latin
- synonymmumpsimus
- synonymnescient
- synonymnumskull
- synonymrube
- synonymwild-ass
- antonymgenius
- antonymscholar
- neighborcharlatan
- neighbordabbler
- neighbordilettante
- neighborsmatterer
- neighborwiseacre
- neighborignorant
- neighborbeginner
- neighborbumpkin
- neighboridiot
- neighborfool
- neighbormentally deficient person
- neighborilliterate
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for ignoramus. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA