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(adj)
Lacking knowledge: ignorant, naive, or both.
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Not enlightened; ignorant in general or of some particular fact.
Unable to read and write.
(figurative) Not instructed in letters; not educated, not well-read; unable to read.
Not experienced; lacking knowledge because lacking experience.
ignorant, uneducated, untaught, untrained.
Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.
Not informed; ignorant.
Inexperienced, untrained.
Ignorant, unlearned.
Unaware or uninformed; oblivious.
Not educated.
Not awake; having no awareness (usually as the result of a head injury).
Without knowing; ignorant.
Alternative spelling of naïf. [Naive.]
Free from guilt, sin, or immorality.
(n)
A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
The condition of being uninformed or uneducated; lack of knowledge or information.
(uncountable) The inability to read and write.
Not aware or informed; lacking knowledge; unmindful.
(usually with to or of) Lacking awareness; unmindful; unaware, unconscious of.
Poorly informed; ignorant.
untrained, not taught or educated in a field of knowledge
Not taught; uneducated.
(sometimes postpositive) Not known; unidentified; not well known.
(informal, derogatory, especially of a person) Stupid.
(v)
To deliberately not listen or pay attention to.
Without intelligence.
(of a person, an action, etc.) Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
(uncountable) The state of being foolish.
Open or bold resistance to or disregard for authority, opposition, or power; refusing to give up.
(figuratively) Lacking education or knowledge; unenlightened; also, lacking morality; immoral, unscrupulous.
Deliberate obscurity or vagueness.
Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy.
Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
Of or pertaining to bad temper; showing anger easily or customarily.
Conscious or having knowledge of something; awake.
Indicating position or direction.
Having relatively high density.
Not schooled; not having been to school.
(figuratively) Lacking knowledge or understanding; uninformed; oblivious.
Intellectually dull or dim-witted.
Boring; not exciting or interesting.
Lacking wit or understanding; foolish.
(comparable) Unintelligent, with little common sense.
Pronunciation spelling of ignorant. [Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.]
Obsolete form of ignorant. [Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.]
uneducated; ignorant
Not ignorant.
Not cunning or crafty.
Very ignorant.
Not having been read.
Uneducated.
illiterate
uneducated; illiterate
Not instructed
Not erudite; unlearned; ignorant.
(chiefly Scotland) Unknowing, unaware, ignorant.
(law, obsolete) ignorant; not knowing; unaware
Alternative form of incognizant. [Lacking knowledge; unaware (of)]
Uncommon spelling of uneducated. [Not educated.]
(obsolete) Unskilled; uncultured, ignorant.
(archaic) Not conversant or acquainted (with/in something); unfamiliar; unversed.
(archaic) Unknowing; unaware.
(informal) Not savvy; lacking knowledge or familiarity.
(obsolete) ignorant
(archaic) Ignorant of the Latin language.
Insufficiently educated.
(neologism) Ignorant of how to use computers or other digital devices or software.
Not conversant; unfamiliar, unacquainted.
Not having been initiated; not having the special knowledge of a particular group.
The color of grass and leaves; a primary additive color midway between yellow and blue which is evoked by light between roughly 495–570 nm.
Not knowing in advance; unaware of something to come.
Not knowable; not able to be known.
Obsolete form of unknown. [(sometimes postpositive) Not known; unidentified; not well known.]
Incapable of being educated; not educable.
Failing to yield information; uninformative.
Lacking comprehension or understanding.
Lacking training, not having been instructed in something.
Not cognizant.
Not erudite; uneducated.
Untaught or untrained.
Not literate; illiterate.
Obsolete form of unwitting. [Unaware or uninformed; oblivious.]
Incapable of being educated.
(obsolete) unkenned; unknown
Not observant
Alternative form of noneducated. [Not educated.]
Failing to observe something; unobservant.
Of a person: not instructed by lectures.
Not conned; not studied or learned.
Not apprised or informed
Alternative spelling of uncognizant. [Not cognizant.]
Not known through experience.
Not acknowledgeable.
(obsolete) unaware