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8-letter words (1 found)

IGNORANT,

7-letter words (4 found)

ATONING,ORATING,RANTING,ROATING,

6-letter words (23 found)

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5-letter words (47 found)

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4-letter words (82 found)

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3-letter words (54 found)

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2-letter words (18 found)

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You can make 229 words from ignorant according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of ignorant

ignorant

Alternative forms

  • ignoraunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French ignorant. By surface analysis, ignore +‎ -ant.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪɡnəɹənt/
  • Hyphenation: ig‧no‧rant

Adjective

ignorant (comparative ignoranter or more ignorant, superlative ignorantest or most ignorant)

  1. Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
  2. Not knowing (a fact or facts), unaware (of something).
    • 1851, Walt Whitman, “Art and Artists” in Emory Holloway (editor), The Uncollected Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921, Volume 1, p. 242,[3]
      […] perhaps it is sometimes the case that the greatest artists live and die, the world and themselves alike ignorant what they possess.
  3. (slang) Ill-mannered, crude.
  4. (obsolete) unknown; undiscovered
    • 1845, Robert Browning, letter addressed to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, cited in Percy Lubbock, Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Her Letters, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1906, Chapter 4, p. 106,[5]
      […] as to you, your goodness and understanding will always see to the bottom of involuntary or ignorant faults—always help me to correct them.
  5. Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:ignorant

Derived terms

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Translations

Noun

ignorant (plural ignorants)

  1. One who is ignorant.

Anagrams

  • ornating

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [iŋ.nuˈɾan]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic, Valencian) [iŋ.noˈɾant]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin ignōrantem.

Adjective

ignorant m or f (masculine and feminine plural ignorants)

  1. ignorant
Related terms
  • ignorància
  • ignorar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

ignorant

  1. gerund of ignorar

Further reading

  • “ignorant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “ignorant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “ignorant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “ignorant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɪɡnorant]
  • Rhymes: -orant

Noun

ignorant m anim

  1. ignoramus, ignorant
    Synonyms: nevědomec, neználek
    Antonym: znalec
    Antonym: vševěd

Declension

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Further reading

  • ignorant in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • ignorant in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • ignorant in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Danish

Etymology

From Latin ignōrāns (“not knowing”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [injoˈʁɑnˀd̥], [enjoˈʁɑnˀd̥], [inoˈʁɑnˀd̥]

Adjective

ignorant (plural and definite singular attributive ignorante)

  1. ignorant

Inflection

ignorant

Noun

ignorant c (singular definite ignoranten, plural indefinite ignoranter)

  1. ignoramus

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌɪɣnoˈrɑnt/

Adjective

ignorant (comparative ignoranter, superlative ignorantst)

  1. ignorant

Inflection

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i.ɲɔ.ʁɑ̃/
  • Homophone: ignorants

Etymology 1

From Latin ignōrantem.

Adjective

ignorant (feminine ignorante, masculine plural ignorants, feminine plural ignorantes)

  1. ignorant
Related terms
  • ignorance
  • ignorer

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Participle

ignorant

  1. present participle of ignorer

Further reading

  • “ignorant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ignōrāns.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪɡnɔˈʁant/
  • Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

ignorant (strong nominative masculine singular ignoranter, comparative ignoranter, superlative am ignorantesten)

  1. willfully ignorant, arrogantly disinterested in knowlegde

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • “ignorant” in Duden online
  • “ignorant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /iɡˈnoː.rant/, [ɪŋˈnoːrän̪t̪]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /iɲˈɲo.rant/, [iɲˈɲɔːrän̪t̪]

Etymology 1

Verb

ignōrant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of ignōrō

Etymology 2

Verb

ignōrant

  1. third-person plural pluperfect active indicative of ignōscō

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin ignōrāns.

Pronunciation

Adjective

ignorant m (feminine singular ignoranta, masculine plural ignorants, feminine plural ignorantas)

  1. ignorant

Related terms

  • ignoráncia
  • ignorar

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iɲuˈraŋt/

Adjective

ignorant

  1. ignorant

Related terms

  • ignoransa
  • ignoré

Noun

ignorant m

  1. ignorant (person)

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ignōrantis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iɡˈnɔ.rant/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrant
  • Syllabification: ig‧no‧rant

Noun

ignorant m pers (female equivalent ignorantka)

  1. ignorant

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • ignorant in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • ignorant in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ignorant.

Adjective

ignorant m or n (feminine singular ignorantă, masculine plural ignoranți, feminine and neuter plural ignorante)

  1. ignorant

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iɡnǒrant/
  • Hyphenation: ig‧no‧rant

Noun

ignòrant m (Cyrillic spelling игно̀рант)

  1. ignorant

Declension


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