ignoramus

ig·no·ra·mus

I0027400 (ĭg′nə-rā′məs)n. pl. ig·no·ra·mus·es An ignorant person.

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[From New Latin ignōrāmus, a grand jury's endorsement upon a bill of indictment when evidence is deemed insufficient to send the case to a trial jury, from Latin, we do not know, first person pl. present tense of ignōrāre, to be ignorant; see ignore.]

ignoramus

(ˌɪɡnəˈreɪməs) n, pl -musesan ignorant person; fool[C16: from legal Latin, literally: we have no knowledge of, from Latin ignōrāre to be ignorant of; see ignore; modern usage originated from the use of Ignoramus as the name of an unlettered lawyer in a play by G. Ruggle, 17th-century English dramatist]

ig•no•ra•mus

(ˌɪg nəˈreɪ məs, -ˈræm əs)

n., pl. -mus•es, -mi (-mi, -maɪ) an extremely ignorant person. [1615–20; < Latin ignōrāmus we are ignorant]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

ignoramus - an ignorant person know nothing, uneducated personunskilled person - a person who lacks technical trainingaliterate, aliterate person - a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sourcesilliterate, illiterate person, nonreader - a person unable to read

ignoramus

noun dunce, fool, ass, donkey, bonehead (slang), duffer (informal), simpleton, dullard, dolt, blockhead, lowbrow, putz (U.S. slang), fathead (informal), eejit (Scot. & Irish), thicko (Brit. slang), numpty (Scot. informal), doofus (slang, chiefly U.S.), numbskull or numskull I am an ignoramus regarding technical matters.

Translations

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