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ignoramous

ignoramous is the nonstandard form of ignoramus.

Meaning of ignoramus

Noun (1)

ignoramus (plural ignoramuses or (hypercorrect) ignorami)

  1. 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.2006 April 18, Philip Beadle, “Mind maps: rubbish in theory, but handy in practice”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Noun (2)

ignoramus (plural ignoramuses)

  1. (dated) A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.

See all 3 meanings of ignoramus

Forms of ignoramous

pluralignoramouses

Questions about ignoramous

What is ignoramous the nonstandard form of?
Ignoramous is the nonstandard form of ignoramus.

Words near ignoramous in the dictionary

  1. ignorals
  2. ignorami
  3. ignoramo
  4. ignoramoes
  5. ignoramos
  6. ignoramous
  7. ignoramouses
  8. ignoramus
  9. ignoramused
  10. ignoramuses
  11. ignoramusing

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