ignorantadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈɪɡn(ə)rənt/,

/ˈɪɡn(ə)rn̩t/, U.S.

/ˈɪɡnərənt/

Forms: Middle English ignoraunte, Middle English–1500s ygnoraunt, Middle English–1600s ignorante, Middle English–1600s ignoraunt, Middle English– ignorant, 1500s yngnorant, 1500s yngnoraunt, 1900s– iggerant (regional and nonstandard); English regional 1800s hignorant, 1800s ignoran, 1900s ignerant; also Scottish 1800s ignerint.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French ignorant; Latin ignōrant-, ignōrans.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French ignorant, ignoraunt (noun) person who is without knowledge (early 12th cent. in Old French), (adjective) without knowledge (early 13th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin ignōrant-, ignōrans not knowing, unaware, in post-classical Latin also innocent (Vulgate), ignorant of the Christian faith (5th cent.), use as adjective of present participle of ignōrāre ignore v.Compare Catalan ignorant (14th cent. as adjective; also as noun), Spanish ignorante (mid 13th cent. as adjective and noun), Portuguese ignorante (15th cent. as adjective; also as noun), Italian ignorante (early 14th cent. as adjective and noun). Specific senses. With sense A. 3 compare classical Latin ignārus ‘ignorant’ (see ignaro n.) in the sense of ignōtus ignote adj. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin ignorantes (plural) ignorant people (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian).

A. adj.

a. Of a person: lacking knowledge or awareness, either generally or about a particular thing; uninformed, uneducated. Also later as a more general term of abuse and sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense A. 5.pig-ignorant: see pig n.¹ Compounds 1e.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective]

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?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) v. met. iii. l. 4636 Þat [emended in ed. to what] wyȝt þat is al vnknowynge and ignoraunt [L. ignarus].

?1483 W. Caxton in tr. Caton sig. ij^v To therudicion and lernynge of them that ben ygnoraunt.

a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 262 We ar so bestlie, dull and ignorant, Our rudnes may nocht lichtlie be correctit.

1661 Grand Deb. Rev. & Alteration Bk. Common Prayer 59 The same words are to be read by the ablest and ignorantest man.

1709 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 21 Aug. (1965) I. 11 I shall return to London the same ignorant soul I went from it.

a1790 R. Henry Hist. Great Brit. (1793) VI. iv. 541 He..found the academicians of Cambridge as ignorant and averse to study as those of Oxford.

1851 G. W. Curtis Nile Notes (1856) vi. 51 A reverse of relations would not appear strange, for the master is as ignorant and brutal as the servant.

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. v. iii. 240 There were..none so ignorant as not to know his deeds.

1936 Iron Age 27 Aug. 25 Let's pretend that the voters of this country are too ignorant or indifferent to see through our pretending.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 720/2 Three patients sexually ignorant and previously chaste had developed acute erectional insufficiency associated with the honeymoon.

1970 J. Hansen Fadeout (1972) viii. 67 I'm a dirty, ignorant Okie to him.

2014 Observer 10 Aug. (Mag.) 53/3 It's one of those non-meat dishes which takes ignorant meat-eaters by surprise.

b. With of (also about, to): having no knowledge or awareness of the thing specified; (hence) †innocent of, having no share in (obsolete).

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > ignorant of something

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c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 13 He was nat ignoraunte of Sathanas wyles.

1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxxxxvii. 130 Ignoraunt of this faytte.

1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 85 He is yngnorant to the acte.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcv^v Of thys the erle of Warwycke was nothyng ignorant.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 64 Of cards and dice they are happily ignorant.

1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 278 In some things, it is much more difficult for a Man..to be Ignorant of his Duty than to Learn it.

1749 J. Wesley Let. 4 Jan. (1931) II. 320 You cannot be ignorant of this fact—that the cup used after the paschal supper was always mixed with water.

1833 Evening & Morning Star June 101 Men may try to be ignorant of the great doings of the Lord now passing before their eyes.

1871 D. G. Rossetti Let. 4 Aug. (1967) III. 966 I (like most artists) am quite ignorant about picture cleaning.

1927 E. Pound Let. 9 Nov. (1971) 214 At present it is the scattered fragments left by a dead man, edited by a man ignorant of Japanese.

1962 Life 23 Feb. 4/2 They were green, ill-trained for war and wholly ignorant about how to resist interrogation.

2010 Daily Tel. 11 Sept. 2/3 People were ignorant of the benefits of vitamin D.

c. With subordinate clause: having no knowledge or awareness of the fact or situation described in the clause.

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a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 784 (MED) Edippus..his moder toke to wyve, Vnwist of both he was of her blode, And ignoraunt, shortly, how it stode, That he toforn hadde his fadere slawe.

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Ai^v I am..ignoraunt in what sea that Ilande standeth.

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie To Rdr. sig. **2^v Being..nothing ignorant what great perfection is to bee required in suche a one.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 114 They being ignorant how the Veins lye.

1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. ix. 50 I am ignorant that till now, I ever made you this offer.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 43 She was ignorant what sort of man Harold had become now.

1916 Daily Tel. 9 Mar. 11/2 We knew his main positions were on the other bank, but we were ignorant whether his positions on our side were fortified or not.

1974 M. Smith Death of Detective (2007) 258 The murderer..discarded it as useless, ignorant that it could be reloaded and refired.

2021 i (Nexis) 2 Sept. 21 The black alpaca, blissfully ignorant that his life was hanging in the balance.

d. With in: not acquainted with or knowledgeable about a subject; unskilled in.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > unfamiliarity with, inexperience > [adjective]

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c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 98 (MED) It is said comonly thoo that be ignorant in thyngis soneste will blame theim.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. C.iiii For that we shulde nat be ignoraunt, feble & weke in these and all other thynges.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 56 The ignoraunt in Philosophie must be admonished, y^t all thinges are full, nothing is emptye.

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 180 Finding the Muscovian Pilot..absolutely ignorant in the business of Navigation.

1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism i. 2 Ignorant in the chief article of the case.

1996 Raygun Nov. 83 Guns 'N Roses is for a public ignorant in both culture and music, the blind masses.

2008 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 29 Feb. (Metro News section) A survey..found many students ignorant in history and literature.

a. Of a statement, action, belief, etc.: characterized by or associated with absence of knowledge; resulting from ignorance; uninformed.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > arising from

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ignoranta1425

a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 51 (MED) Me þinkeþ þan, ȝif I wolde be had excused of God for myn ignoraunte defautes, þat I schuld charitably..haue oþer mens ignoraunte wordes & dedes algates excusid.

1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xiv. 57 Bysyde my draughtes rude and ygnoraunt.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 72 Alas, what ignorant sinne haue I committed?

1783 T. Lindsey Let. 18 Oct. (2007) I. 398 That ignorant bigotry and intolerance, which hurts their own moral dispositions at the same time that it creates infinite prejudice against the gospel itself.

1849 T. Bell Brit. Reptiles (ed. 2) 115 Few animals have ever suffered more undeserved persecution as the victims of an absurd and ignorant prejudice than the toad.

1911 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 May 1228/1 Many of the communications are ignorant drivel or mere begging letters.

2000 Economist 15 July (Review of Books section) 11/1 Man's ever-improving knowledge of such invisible nasties as viruses has debunked ignorant superstitions and eased the suffering of countless unfortunates.

2018 B. Cooper Eloquent Rage 10 My friend Tracey heard me making such ignorant pronouncements about feminism.

†b. That keeps a person in ignorance. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 397 If you know ought which do's behoue my knowledge..imprison't not In ignorant concealement.

†3. Not known; unknown. Also with a prepositional phrase introduced by to (also unto), indicating the person or group to whom the fact or information is not known. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [adjective]

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?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 37 Þer were men that did translate owte of Hebrewe in to Grewe in the Newe Testamente, as Aquila Simachus, Theodocion, and the v^the edicion, the auctor of whom is ignorante [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. not knowen; L. cujus auctor ignoratur].

1547 J. Hooper Answer Detection Deuyls Sophistrye Ded. sig. Aij^v It is not ignoraunt unto youe what may be done by the vertue of a fere and well orderyd oracion.

1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares v. sig. K3^v Whence he is, tis ignorant to vs.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 219 It seemes ignorant that long before, our Countrimen had embraced Christ by the preaching of Ioseph of Arimathea.

4. figurative. Of a thing: lacking agency or awareness; useless.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. i. 27 His Shipping (Poore ignorant Baubles) on our terrible Seas..crack'd..'gainst our Rockes.

1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. viii. i. 96 That the Origin thereof can be ascribed to nothing less than an Accidental and Ignorant Cause.

1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant Pref. It ought to be the ablest weather that can be had, not ignorant, poor-quality, amateur weather.

1971 D. Hughes Great Victory Mosaic i. 38 We walked together along the ignorant stone.

5. British regional and colloquial. Of a person: lacking manners or refinement; rude; uncouth.See note at sense A. 1a.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined

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down and dirty1977

1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 71 Ignorant, ill-mannered.

1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 49 I jes' can't stan' that feller, 'e's plain bloody 'iggerant.

1987 C. Cumpston in L. Evans Overtime (1990) 172 Male co-workers can also be a problem for the female employees at the mill... The talkers..will tell you all about what they want to do to you and can sometimes get ignorant.

2003 K. Sampson Freshers 21 Nonetheless, I shout ‘See you’ as I'm leaving. No need to be ignorant, I think.

2017 @symons_collin 22 June in twitter.com (accessed 2 Dec. 2021) Biggest pet peeve is when ignorant people at the gym take up my mirror space.

6. Caribbean. Angry, quick-tempered. Chiefly in to get on ignorant (also to get ignorant): to become angry.

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the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective]

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the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry

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to set up the heckle1601

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to fire up1779

to flash up1822

to get one's dander up1831

to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832

to have (also get) one's monkey up1833

to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837

rile1837

to go off the handle1839

to flare up1840

to set one's back up1845

to run hot1855

to wax up1859

to get one's rag out1862

blow1871

to get (also have) the pricker1871

to turn up rough1872

to get the needle1874

to blaze up1878

to get wet1898

spunk1898

to see red1901

to go crook1911

to get ignorant1913

to hit the ceiling1914

to hit the roof1921

to blow one's top1928

to lose one's rag1928

to lose one's haira1930

to go up in smoke1933

hackle1935

to have, get a cob on1937

to pop (also blow) one's cork1938

to go hostile1941

to go sparec1942

to do one's bun1944

to lose one's wool1944

to blow one's stack1947

to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950

rear1953

to get on ignorant1956

to go through the roof1958

to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964

to lose ita1969

to blow a gasket1975

to throw a wobbler1985

1913 H. G. de Lisser Jane: Story of Jamaica vi. 83 I tell y'u not to use me, for I will get ignorant again.

1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners (1995) 60 One evening when a girl was there the bell ring and Moses went and open the door. From the moment he see Cap he start to get on ignorant.

1975 T. Callender It so Happen 21 But she didn't let the father know because he could get on very ignorant at a thing like that.

1992 V. Headley Yardie (1993) 121 She could be very ignorant and he had no intention of getting involved in an argument just now.

2020 @briiabella 1 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 2 Dec. 2021) I does real want to get on ignorant sometimes but I does have to remind myself that there's nobody worth all that energy from me.

B. n.

1. An ignorant person. Now rare.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] > person

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Oscar1918

c1450 (c1440) S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (Longleat) (1904) 101 (MED) Some tyme the ingnorant may avise the wise man.

a1460 tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Helm.) (1999) 7 (MED) Oon is bettir to holde his peas thanne for to speke with an ignoraunt.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Jasp l. 149 in Poems (1981) 9 Quha is enemie to science and cunning Bot ignorants, that vnderstandis nocht.

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 716/1 We must nedes Judge you an ignoraunt herin.

1627 H. Burton Baiting Popes Bull 2 Ignorants write their marke, in stead of their names.

1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 43 Ah! to marry an Ignorant! that can hardly Read or Write.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 239 Church authorities..too often entrust their buildings to ignorants.

1994 I. Horovitz Fighting Over Beverley ii. ii, in Two New Plays 172 Fancy you callin' me ‘a misery’ and ‘an ignorant’, when you're talkin' like a pathetic spot!

2019 M. Taibbi Hate Inc. xi. 180 White's position was that fist-shaking Midwestern ignorants needed grownups with degrees to run things for them.

2. With the and plural agreement. Ignorant people as a class.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] > person > collectively

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a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 268 To the ignorant nocht gaif I my teching,..Nor vnto saulis support of my peching.

1616 T. Beard Retractiue from Romish Relig. x. 351 The Cattell and the Sheepe, that is, the rude and the ignorant doe drinke and refresh themselues.

1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 67 To mislead the ignorant and unwary.

1854 W. Carleton Tales & Sketches Irish Peasantry 119 The use especially of cantharides, or French flies, in the hands of the ignorant, has often been said to induce madness.

1919 F. Sullivan Will of People v. 43 He realizes that the alpha of his calling is not to offend the susceptibilities of either the ignorant or the learned.

2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 June a15/1 The gleanings of the surveillance state will eventually be used by the mischievous, the malicious and the ignorant in ways the creators of the system did not intend.

†3. In plural. The Brothers Hospitallers; = Ignorant Friars n. at Compounds. Obsolete. rare.

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1693 A. Gavin Short Hist. Monastical Orders xix. 220 Besides these Orders, there is mention made..of the Ignorants.

Compounds

† Ignorant Friars n. Obsolete the Brothers Hospitallers, a Roman Catholic order founded in the 16th cent. by the Portuguese saint John of God (1495–1550) to minister to the sick. [Probably after Middle French, French (now historical) ignorant (1593 in this sense: see Ignorantine adj.).]

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1621 R. Jenison Height Israels Idolatrie ii. ix. 114 If you bee desirous of knowledge, you haue the Iesuites that professe it; if of ignorance, you haue the ignorant Friars which haue made a vertue of ignorance.

1693 A. Gavin Short Hist. Monastical Orders xiv. 144 The Order of the Brothers of Charity, called otherwise..Ignorant Fryars.

1756 C. Lennox tr. P. M. de L'Écluse des Loges Mem. Maximilian de Bethune II. xvi. 258 The holy father had the consolation to see his dominions filled with an accession of monks of every kind, Augustins reformed, Recolets, barefooted carmelites, ignorant fryars.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	ignorant
释义	ignorantadj.n. Brit. /ˈɪɡn(ə)rənt/, /ˈɪɡn(ə)rn̩t/, U.S. /ˈɪɡnərənt/ Forms: Middle English ignoraunte, Middle English–1500s ygnoraunt, Middle English–1600s ignorante, Middle English–1600s ignoraunt, Middle English– ignorant, 1500s yngnorant, 1500s yngnoraunt, 1900s– iggerant (regional and nonstandard); English regional 1800s hignorant, 1800s ignoran, 1900s ignerant; also Scottish 1800s ignerint. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French ignorant; Latin ignōrant-, ignōrans. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French ignorant, ignoraunt (noun) person who is without knowledge (early 12th cent. in Old French), (adjective) without knowledge (early 13th cent.), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin ignōrant-, ignōrans not knowing, unaware, in post-classical Latin also innocent (Vulgate), ignorant of the Christian faith (5th cent.), use as adjective of present participle of ignōrāre ignore v.Compare Catalan ignorant (14th cent. as adjective; also as noun), Spanish ignorante (mid 13th cent. as adjective and noun), Portuguese ignorante (15th cent. as adjective; also as noun), Italian ignorante (early 14th cent. as adjective and noun). Specific senses. With sense A. 3 compare classical Latin ignārus ‘ignorant’ (see ignaro n.) in the sense of ignōtus ignote adj. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin ignorantes (plural) ignorant people (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian). A. adj. 1. a. Of a person: lacking knowledge or awareness, either generally or about a particular thing; uninformed, uneducated. Also later as a more general term of abuse and sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense A. 5.pig-ignorant: see pig n.¹ Compounds 1e. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] unlearedeOE untowenc1000 unwittyc1000 skillessc1175 uncouthc1220 lewda1225 lorelessa1300 simplea1325 layc1330 uncunning1340 untaughtc1340 unknowingc1350 rudea1382 roida1400 unquainta1400 ignorant?c1400 unlearnedc1400 misknowing?a1425 simple-hearted?c1425 unknownc1475 unkenningc1480 unweeting1483 nescienta1500 craftlessc1530 misliterate1532 sillya1547 ingram1553 gross1561 inscient1578 borowe1579 plain-headeda1586 empirical1588 rudeful1589 lack-learning1590 learnless?1593 wotless?1594 ingrant1597 untutored1597 small-knowing1598 uninstructed1598 unlearnt1609 unread1609 unware?1611 nescious1623 inscious1633 inscientifical1660 uninformed1702 unaware1704 unable1721 unsuspecting1776 inerudite1801 ill-informed1824 incognoscent1827 unminded1831 unknowledgeable1837 knowledgelessc1843 parviscient1862 clueless1943 ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) v. met. iii. l. 4636 Þat [emended in ed. to what] wyȝt þat is al vnknowynge and ignoraunt [L. ignarus]. ?1483 W. Caxton in tr. Caton sig. ij^v To therudicion and lernynge of them that ben ygnoraunt. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 262 We ar so bestlie, dull and ignorant, Our rudnes may nocht lichtlie be correctit. 1661 Grand Deb. Rev. & Alteration Bk. Common Prayer 59 The same words are to be read by the ablest and ignorantest man. 1709 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 21 Aug. (1965) I. 11 I shall return to London the same ignorant soul I went from it. a1790 R. Henry Hist. Great Brit. (1793) VI. iv. 541 He..found the academicians of Cambridge as ignorant and averse to study as those of Oxford. 1851 G. W. Curtis Nile Notes (1856) vi. 51 A reverse of relations would not appear strange, for the master is as ignorant and brutal as the servant. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. v. iii. 240 There were..none so ignorant as not to know his deeds. 1936 Iron Age 27 Aug. 25 Let's pretend that the voters of this country are too ignorant or indifferent to see through our pretending. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 720/2 Three patients sexually ignorant and previously chaste had developed acute erectional insufficiency associated with the honeymoon. 1970 J. Hansen Fadeout (1972) viii. 67 I'm a dirty, ignorant Okie to him. 2014 Observer 10 Aug. (Mag.) 53/3 It's one of those non-meat dishes which takes ignorant meat-eaters by surprise. b. With of (also about, to): having no knowledge or awareness of the thing specified; (hence) †innocent of, having no share in (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > ignorant of something unwittingc893 unwarec1374 unknowinga1398 ignorantc1425 unawares1549 unfraught1587 unintelligenta1616 unstudied1642 a stranger to1665 unconscious1678 unconscious1700 unskilled1725 oblivious1854 c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 13 He was nat ignoraunte of Sathanas wyles. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) lxxxxvii. 130 Ignoraunt of this faytte. 1530 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 85 He is yngnorant to the acte. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcv^v Of thys the erle of Warwycke was nothyng ignorant. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 64 Of cards and dice they are happily ignorant. 1698 R. South 12 Serm. III. 278 In some things, it is much more difficult for a Man..to be Ignorant of his Duty than to Learn it. 1749 J. Wesley Let. 4 Jan. (1931) II. 320 You cannot be ignorant of this fact—that the cup used after the paschal supper was always mixed with water. 1833 Evening & Morning Star June 101 Men may try to be ignorant of the great doings of the Lord now passing before their eyes. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Let. 4 Aug. (1967) III. 966 I (like most artists) am quite ignorant about picture cleaning. 1927 E. Pound Let. 9 Nov. (1971) 214 At present it is the scattered fragments left by a dead man, edited by a man ignorant of Japanese. 1962 Life 23 Feb. 4/2 They were green, ill-trained for war and wholly ignorant about how to resist interrogation. 2010 Daily Tel. 11 Sept. 2/3 People were ignorant of the benefits of vitamin D. c. With subordinate clause: having no knowledge or awareness of the fact or situation described in the clause. ΚΠ a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 784 (MED) Edippus..his moder toke to wyve, Vnwist of both he was of her blode, And ignoraunt, shortly, how it stode, That he toforn hadde his fadere slawe. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Ai^v I am..ignoraunt in what sea that Ilande standeth. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie To Rdr. sig. *2^v Being..nothing ignorant what great perfection is to bee required in suche a one. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia* 114 They being ignorant how the Veins lye. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest II. ix. 50 I am ignorant that till now, I ever made you this offer. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 43 She was ignorant what sort of man Harold had become now. 1916 Daily Tel. 9 Mar. 11/2 We knew his main positions were on the other bank, but we were ignorant whether his positions on our side were fortified or not. 1974 M. Smith Death of Detective (2007) 258 The murderer..discarded it as useless, ignorant that it could be reloaded and refired. 2021 i (Nexis) 2 Sept. 21 The black alpaca, blissfully ignorant that his life was hanging in the balance. d. With in: not acquainted with or knowledgeable about a subject; unskilled in. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > unfamiliarity with, inexperience > [adjective] unwistc1374 unknowna1393 ignorantc1475 imperfect1508 rawa1513 unskilfula1547 imperite?1550 illiterate1556 strange1561 unacquainted1565 green-headed1569 unacquainted1581 unacquaint1587 unfledged1603 inexperienced1626 guiltless1667 inexperient1670 unconversanta1674 unversed1675 uninitiated1678 a stranger to1697 uninitiate1801 inconversant1802 lay1821 griffish1836 wet behind the ears1851 neophytic1856 griffinish1860 experienceless1875 neophytish1897 wet-eared1967 c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 98 (MED) It is said comonly thoo that be ignorant in thyngis soneste will blame theim. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. C.iiii For that we shulde nat be ignoraunt, feble & weke in these and all other thynges. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 56 The ignoraunt in Philosophie must be admonished, y^t all thinges are full, nothing is emptye. 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 180 Finding the Muscovian Pilot..absolutely ignorant in the business of Navigation. 1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism i. 2 Ignorant in the chief article of the case. 1996 Raygun Nov. 83 Guns 'N Roses is for a public ignorant in both culture and music, the blind masses. 2008 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 29 Feb. (Metro News section) A survey..found many students ignorant in history and literature. 2. a. Of a statement, action, belief, etc.: characterized by or associated with absence of knowledge; resulting from ignorance; uninformed. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [adjective] > arising from uncunning1387 ignoranta1425 a1425 (?a1400) Cloud of Unknowing (Harl. 674) (1944) 51 (MED) Me þinkeþ þan, ȝif I wolde be had excused of God for myn ignoraunte defautes, þat I schuld charitably..haue oþer mens ignoraunte wordes & dedes algates excusid. 1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xiv. 57 Bysyde my draughtes rude and ygnoraunt. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iv. ii. 72 Alas, what ignorant sinne haue I committed? View more context for this quotation 1783 T. Lindsey Let. 18 Oct. (2007) I. 398 That ignorant bigotry and intolerance, which hurts their own moral dispositions at the same time that it creates infinite prejudice against the gospel itself. 1849 T. Bell Brit. Reptiles (ed. 2) 115 Few animals have ever suffered more undeserved persecution as the victims of an absurd and ignorant prejudice than the toad. 1911 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 27 May 1228/1 Many of the communications are ignorant drivel or mere begging letters. 2000 Economist 15 July (Review of Books section) 11/1 Man's ever-improving knowledge of such invisible nasties as viruses has debunked ignorant superstitions and eased the suffering of countless unfortunates. 2018 B. Cooper Eloquent Rage 10 My friend Tracey heard me making such ignorant pronouncements about feminism. †b. That keeps a person in ignorance. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 397 If you know ought which do's behoue my knowledge..imprison't not In ignorant concealement. View more context for this quotation †3. Not known; unknown. Also with a prepositional phrase introduced by to (also unto), indicating the person or group to whom the fact or information is not known. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > that which is unknown > [adjective] uncouthc897 neweOE fremdc950 unknownOE unseena1200 unketha1275 unkedc1275 strange13.. disguisyc1330 unknowedc1380 aliena1382 unhearda1382 unkenneda1400 ranishc1400 ignorant?a1475 unwittenc1485 unbekend1513 unacquainted1551 unkent1579 unwitted1582 unfamiliar1593 unsounded1594 incognite1609 ignote1623 in the urn1658 unfathomed1659 unexperienced1698 unknown-of1700 undiscovered1707 inaudite1708 darka1727 unascertained1751 unwist1757 unknownst1805 unbeknown1824 unbeknownst1848 unsampled1890 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 37 Þer were men that did translate owte of Hebrewe in to Grewe in the Newe Testamente, as Aquila Simachus, Theodocion, and the v^the edicion, the auctor of whom is ignorante [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. not knowen; L. cujus auctor ignoratur]. 1547 J. Hooper Answer Detection Deuyls Sophistrye Ded. sig. Aij^v It is not ignoraunt unto youe what may be done by the vertue of a fere and well orderyd oracion. 1612 G. Chapman Widdowes Teares v. sig. K3^v Whence he is, tis ignorant to vs. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 219 It seemes ignorant that long before, our Countrimen had embraced Christ by the preaching of Ioseph of Arimathea. 4. figurative. Of a thing: lacking agency or awareness; useless. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. i. 27 His Shipping (Poore ignorant Baubles) on our terrible Seas..crack'd..'gainst our Rockes. View more context for this quotation 1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. viii. i. 96 That the Origin thereof can be ascribed to nothing less than an Accidental and Ignorant Cause. 1892 ‘M. Twain’ Amer. Claimant Pref. It ought to be the ablest weather that can be had, not ignorant, poor-quality, amateur weather. 1971 D. Hughes Great Victory Mosaic i. 38 We walked together along the ignorant stone. 5. British regional and colloquial. Of a person: lacking manners or refinement; rude; uncouth.See note at sense A. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [adjective] > ill-mannered > unrefined boistousc1300 untheweda1325 uplandisha1387 unaffiled1390 rudea1393 knavishc1405 peoplisha1425 clubbedc1440 blunt1477 lob?1507 robust1511 borel1513 carterly1519 clubbish1530 rough?1531 rustical?1532 incondite1539 agrestc1550 rusticc1550 brute1555 lobcocka1556 loutisha1556 carterlike1561 boorish1562 ruggedc1565 lobbish1567 loutlike1567 sowish1570 clownish1581 unrefined1582 impolished1583 homespun1590 transalpinea1592 swaddish1593 unpolished1594 untutored1595 swabberly1596 tartarous1602 porterly1603 lobcocked1606 lob-like1606 cluster-fisted1611 agrestic1617 inurbane1623 unelevated1627 incult1628 unbrushed1640 vulgar1643 unhewed1644 unsmooth1648 hirsute1658 loutardly1658 unhewn1659 roughsome?c1660 sordid1668 inhumanea1680 coarse1699 brutal1709 ramgunshoch1721 tramontane1740 uncouth1740 no-nationa1756 unurbane1760 turnipy1792 rudas1802 common1804 cubbish1819 clodhopping1828 vulgarian1833 cloddish1844 unkempt1846 bush1851 vulgarish1860 rodney1866 crude1876 ignorant1886 yobby1910 nekulturny1932 oikish1959 yobbish1966 ocker1972 down and dirty1977 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 71 Ignorant, ill-mannered. 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 49 I jes' can't stan' that feller, 'e's plain bloody 'iggerant. 1987 C. Cumpston in L. Evans Overtime (1990) 172 Male co-workers can also be a problem for the female employees at the mill... The talkers..will tell you all about what they want to do to you and can sometimes get ignorant. 2003 K. Sampson Freshers 21 Nonetheless, I shout ‘See you’ as I'm leaving. No need to be ignorant, I think. 2017 @symons_collin 22 June in twitter.com (accessed 2 Dec. 2021) Biggest pet peeve is when ignorant people at the gym take up my mirror space. 6. Caribbean. Angry, quick-tempered. Chiefly in to get on ignorant (also to get ignorant): to become angry. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > [adjective] irrec825 gramec893 wemodc897 wrothc950 bolghenc1000 gramelyc1000 hotOE on fireOE brathc1175 moodyc1175 to-bollenc1175 wrethfulc1175 wraw?c1225 agrameda1300 wrathfula1300 agremedc1300 hastivec1300 irousa1340 wretheda1340 aniredc1350 felonc1374 angryc1380 upreareda1382 jealous1382 crousea1400 grieveda1400 irefula1400 mada1400 teena1400 wraweda1400 wretthy14.. angryc1405 errevousa1420 wrothy1422 angereda1425 passionatec1425 fumous1430 tangylc1440 heavy1452 fire angry1490 wrothsomea1529 angerful?1533 wrothful?1534 wrath1535 provoked1538 warm1547 vibrant1575 chauffe1582 fuming1582 enfeloned1596 incensed1597 choleric1598 inflameda1600 raiseda1600 exasperate1601 angried1609 exasperated1611 dispassionate1635 bristlinga1639 peltish1648 sultry1671 on (also upon) the high ropes (also rope)1672 nangry1681 ugly1687 sorea1694 glimflashy1699 enraged1732 spunky1809 cholerous1822 kwaai1827 wrathy1828 angersome1834 outraged1836 irate1838 vex1843 raring1845 waxy1853 stiff1856 scotty1867 bristly1872 hot under the collar1879 black angry1894 spitfire1894 passionful1901 ignorant1913 hairy1914 snaky1919 steamed1923 uptight1934 broigus1937 lemony1941 ripped1941 pissed1943 crooked1945 teed off1955 ticked off1959 ripe1966 torqued1967 bummed1970 the mind > emotion > anger > [verb (intransitive)] > become angry wrethec900 wrothc975 abelghec1300 to move one's blood (also mood)c1330 to peck moodc1330 gremec1460 to take firea1513 fumec1522 sourdc1540 spitec1560 to set up the heckle1601 fire1604 exasperate1659 to fire up1779 to flash up1822 to get one's dander up1831 to fly (occasionally jump, etc.) off (at) the handle1832 to have (also get) one's monkey up1833 to cut up rough, rusty, savage1837 rile1837 to go off the handle1839 to flare up1840 to set one's back up1845 to run hot1855 to wax up1859 to get one's rag out1862 blow1871 to get (also have) the pricker1871 to turn up rough1872 to get the needle1874 to blaze up1878 to get wet1898 spunk1898 to see red1901 to go crook1911 to get ignorant1913 to hit the ceiling1914 to hit the roof1921 to blow one's top1928 to lose one's rag1928 to lose one's haira1930 to go up in smoke1933 hackle1935 to have, get a cob on1937 to pop (also blow) one's cork1938 to go hostile1941 to go sparec1942 to do one's bun1944 to lose one's wool1944 to blow one's stack1947 to go (also do) one's (also a) dingerc1950 rear1953 to get on ignorant1956 to go through the roof1958 to keep (also blow, lose) one's cool1964 to lose ita1969 to blow a gasket1975 to throw a wobbler1985 1913 H. G. de Lisser Jane: Story of Jamaica vi. 83 I tell y'u not to use me, for I will get ignorant again. 1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners (1995) 60 One evening when a girl was there the bell ring and Moses went and open the door. From the moment he see Cap he start to get on ignorant. 1975 T. Callender It so Happen 21 But she didn't let the father know because he could get on very ignorant at a thing like that. 1992 V. Headley Yardie (1993) 121 She could be very ignorant and he had no intention of getting involved in an argument just now. 2020 @briiabella 1 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 2 Dec. 2021) I does real want to get on ignorant sometimes but I does have to remind myself that there's nobody worth all that energy from me. B. n. 1. An ignorant person. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] > person unwiteOE buzzard1377 idiotc1384 ignorantc1450 unscholar1545 idiota1566 borowe1579 simple1600 ignoramus1616 ignoramo1623 ignaro1634 ingram1638 know-little1651 lack-latina1657 idiotist1715 know-nothing1812 Oscar1918 c1450 (c1440) S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (Longleat) (1904) 101 (MED) Some tyme the ingnorant may avise the wise man. a1460 tr. Dicts & Sayings Philosophers (Helm.) (1999) 7 (MED) Oon is bettir to holde his peas thanne for to speke with an ignoraunt. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Jasp l. 149 in Poems (1981) 9 Quha is enemie to science and cunning Bot ignorants, that vnderstandis nocht. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 716/1 We must nedes Judge you an ignoraunt herin. 1627 H. Burton Baiting Popes Bull 2 Ignorants write their marke, in stead of their names. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 43 Ah! to marry an Ignorant! that can hardly Read or Write. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 239 Church authorities..too often entrust their buildings to ignorants. 1994 I. Horovitz Fighting Over Beverley ii. ii, in Two New Plays 172 Fancy you callin' me ‘a misery’ and ‘an ignorant’, when you're talkin' like a pathetic spot! 2019 M. Taibbi Hate Inc. xi. 180 White's position was that fist-shaking Midwestern ignorants needed grownups with degrees to run things for them. 2. With the and plural agreement. Ignorant people as a class. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] > person > collectively learned and lewedc1175 uncunning1338 rudea1350 unknowinga1400 unlearnedc1450 ignorant?a1513 simplec1535 ignorati1817 a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in Poems (1998) I. 268 To the ignorant nocht gaif I my teching,..Nor vnto saulis support of my peching. 1616 T. Beard Retractiue from Romish Relig. x. 351 The Cattell and the Sheepe, that is, the rude and the ignorant doe drinke and refresh themselues. 1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 67 To mislead the ignorant and unwary. 1854 W. Carleton Tales & Sketches Irish Peasantry 119 The use especially of cantharides, or French flies, in the hands of the ignorant, has often been said to induce madness. 1919 F. Sullivan Will of People v. 43 He realizes that the alpha of his calling is not to offend the susceptibilities of either the ignorant or the learned. 2013 Wall St. Jrnl. 15 June a15/1 The gleanings of the surveillance state will eventually be used by the mischievous, the malicious and the ignorant in ways the creators of the system did not intend. †3. In plural. The Brothers Hospitallers; = Ignorant Friars n. at Compounds. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1693 A. Gavin Short Hist. Monastical Orders xix. 220 Besides these Orders, there is mention made..of the Ignorants. Compounds † Ignorant Friars n. Obsolete the Brothers Hospitallers, a Roman Catholic order founded in the 16th cent. by the Portuguese saint John of God (1495–1550) to minister to the sick. [Probably after Middle French, French (now historical) ignorant (1593 in this sense: see Ignorantine adj.).] ΚΠ 1621 R. Jenison Height Israels Idolatrie ii. ix. 114 If you bee desirous of knowledge, you haue the Iesuites that professe it; if of ignorance, you haue the ignorant Friars which haue made a vertue of ignorance. 1693 A. Gavin Short Hist. Monastical Orders xiv. 144 The Order of the Brothers of Charity, called otherwise..Ignorant Fryars. 1756 C. Lennox tr. P. M. de L'Écluse des Loges Mem. Maximilian de Bethune II. xvi. 258 The holy father had the consolation to see his dominions filled with an accession of monks of every kind, Augustins reformed, Recolets, barefooted carmelites, ignorant fryars. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < adj.n.?c1400
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