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ignoramuses

ignoramuses is the plural of ignoramus.

ignoramuses is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

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Questions about ignoramuses

What is ignoramuses the plural of?
Ignoramuses is the plural of ignoramus.

Words near ignoramuses in the dictionary

  1. ignoramos
  2. ignoramous
  3. ignoramouses
  4. ignoramus
  5. ignoramused
  6. ignoramuses
  7. ignoramusing
  8. ignorance
  9. ignorance is bliss
  10. ignorances
  11. ignorancy

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