1 ~ (of / about sth) lacking knowledge or information about sth; not educated:
an ignorant person / question * He's completely ignorant about modern technology. * At that time I was ignorant of events going on elsewhere. * Never make your students feel stupid or ignorant.
2 (informal) with very bad manners:
a rude, ignorant person
ignorantly adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ignorant is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ignorant a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ignorant is tagged as adjective.
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