| 释义 |
Definition of nescient in English: nescientadjective ˈnɛsɪənt literary Lacking knowledge; ignorant. I ventured into the new Korean restaurant with some equally nescient companions Example sentencesExamples - The cluelessness in his expression's so nescient that it's something close to profound.
- Echoing Goethe's Romantic interpretation and adulation, Belinsky's Bard ‘understood heaven, earth, and hell’ but was, nonetheless, an ‘ignoramus’, nescient of the meaning of his own plays.
- This means I can get whipped up into a state of ill-informed indignation, because if I'm going to get indignant it may as well be in quite a pompous and nescient fashion.
Synonyms ignorant, unenlightened, uneducated, unschooled, untutored, illiterate, unlettered, unlearned, unscholarly, unread, uninformed, backward, simple
Derivatives noun ˈnɛsɪəns literary This is not to deny Lutyens his aesthetic preferences, but it is to point out that preferences cannot legitimize or wipe out a record of nescience and disdain, and of taking the credit without taking any of the blame. Example sentencesExamples - A man fallen in the ocean of nescience cannot be saved simply by rescuing his outward dress - the gross material body.
- Past, future, and present, these three times are imperceptible, an ignorance or nescience that is not real, only false.
- This living entity, covered by the influence of nescience, exists in different forms in the material condition.
- It reminds me somewhat of the collusion between cynicism and innocence, in which nescience is the very form that jaded dyspepsia takes.
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin nescient- 'not knowing', from the verb nescire, from ne- 'not' + scire 'know'. Definition of nescient in US English: nescientadjective literary Lacking knowledge; ignorant. I ventured into the new Korean restaurant with some equally nescient companions Example sentencesExamples - Echoing Goethe's Romantic interpretation and adulation, Belinsky's Bard ‘understood heaven, earth, and hell’ but was, nonetheless, an ‘ignoramus’, nescient of the meaning of his own plays.
- This means I can get whipped up into a state of ill-informed indignation, because if I'm going to get indignant it may as well be in quite a pompous and nescient fashion.
- The cluelessness in his expression's so nescient that it's something close to profound.
Synonyms ignorant, unenlightened, uneducated, unschooled, untutored, illiterate, unlettered, unlearned, unscholarly, unread, uninformed, backward, simple
Origin Late Middle English: from Latin nescient- ‘not knowing’, from the verb nescire, from ne- ‘not’ + scire ‘know’. |