Thesaurus:ignorant

Thesaurus

ignorant

English

Adjective

Sense: being uninformed or uneducated

Synonyms

• benighted
• cimmerian
• clueless
• foolish    [⇒ thesaurus]
• ignorant
• ill-informed
• illiterate
• lack-learning (obsolete)
• lay (obsolete)
• lewd (obsolete)
• loreless (archaic)
• nescient
• oblivious
• philistine (derogatory)
• unaware
• uncultivated
• uncultured
• uneducated
• unenlightened
• unerudite
• uninformed
• unknowing
• unknowledgeable
• unlearned
• unlearnt
• unlettered
• unmindful
• unread
• unscholarly
• unschooled
• untaught
• untrained
• untutored
• unwitting

Antonyms

• educated
• knowledgable
• learned    [⇒ thesaurus]
• trained
• wise    [⇒ thesaurus]

See also

• Thesaurus:ignoramus
• Thesaurus:impolite

Further reading

• “491. ignorance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “ignorant” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.