ignoramus
/ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/
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Australia/ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹæɪ.məs/
ignoramus noun: a totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
Noun (1)
ignoramus (plural ignoramuses or (hypercorrect) ignorami)
- 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
- “The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.2012 May 31, Clyde Haberman, quoting George F. Will, “Trying to Solve the Great Trump Mystery”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2024
Noun (2)
ignoramus (plural ignoramuses)
- A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.
Verb
ignoramus (third-person singular simple present ignoramuses, present participle ignoramusing, simple past and past participle ignoramused)
- To make such a ruling against (an indictment).
ignoramus meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
ignoramus in Tamil
- அறிவிலி, பேதை, அறிவில்லாதவர், அறிவீனன், மிலேச்சன், ஏதை
ignoramus in Urdu
- غبی, جاہل
ignoramus in Malayalam
- fool, ass, halfwit
- അജ്ഞൻ, അറിവില്ലാത്തവൻ, മൂർഖൻ, മൂർഖമതി, പരബ്രഹ്മം, നിർഗ്ഗുണപരബ്രഹ്മം
ignoramus in Kannada
- ಮೂಢ, ದಡ್ಡ, ಹೆಡ್ಡ, ಶುಂಠ
More languagesFewer languages
- ignoramus in Vietnamese
- ếch ngồi đáy giếng
Synonyms of ignoramus
Antonyms
Forms of ignoramus
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | ignoramuses |
| plural hypercorrect | ignorami |
| alternative form (nonstandard) | ignoramous |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | ignoramuses |
| present participle | ignoramusing |
| past participle | ignoramused |
| past | ignoramused |
Origin of ignoramus
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”).
Directly from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know”).
Words formed from ignoramus
Words that rhyme with ignoramus
Questions about ignoramus
- What does ignoramus mean?
- Ignoramus means a totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
- What is ignoramus in Tamil?
- Ignoramus in Tamil is அறிவிலி, பேதை, அறிவில்லாதவர். See Ignoramus meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ignoramus?
- Ignoramus can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce ignoramus?
- Ignoramus is pronounced /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/ (UK).
- What is the plural of ignoramus?
- The plural of ignoramus is ignoramuses.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ignoramus (page history and authors); ignoramus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ignoramus (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ignoramus (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ignoramus (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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