ignorant

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/ˈɪɡ.nə.ɹənt/

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His manner was at best off-hand, at worst totally ignorant.
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, […] as to you, your goodness and understanding will always see to th...
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, […] perhaps it is sometimes the case that the greatest artists live and die, th...

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That man that doth not know those things which are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides;
1664, John Tillotson, “Sermon I. The Wisdom of Being Religious. Job XXVIII. 28.”, in The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Late Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: […], Lo...
The ignorant peasant, without fault, is greater than the philosopher with many; for what is genius or courage without an heart?
1766, Oliver Goldsmith, chapter 15, in The Vicar of Wakefield, volume I, London: F. Newbery, page 150
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Corinthians 1:8
Eve. Somewhat forbids me, which I cannot name; For ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame: But some restraining thought, I know not why, Tells me, you long should beg, I long deny.
1677, John Dryden, The State of Innocence and Fall of Man, London: Henry Herringman, act II, page 14
That night he slept the sleep of happiness, blissfully ignorant that he had placed the letters in the wrong envelopes.
1921, John T. McCutcheon, The Restless Age, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 179

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From Old French ignorant, from Latin ignōrāns (“unaware, unknowing”). By surface analysis, ignore + -ant.