Ignorant



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj. 无知的, 愚昧的
• ［英］ adj. 无知的, 愚昧的 ( knowing little or nothing)
• ［类］ 反义词: erudite ( 博学的)
• ［例］ He's not stupid, just ignorant.

Webster Collegiate

adjective

• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. destitute of knowledge or education <an ignorant society>; also lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified <parents ignorant of modern mathematics>
  • b. resulting from or showing lack of knowledge or intelligence <ignorant errors>
• 2. unaware, uninformed
• ? ignorantly adverb
• ? ignorantness noun
• Synonyms:
  • ignorant, illiterate, unlettered, untutored, unlearned mean not having knowledge. ignorant may imply a general condition or it may apply to lack of knowledge or awareness of a particular thing <an ignorant fool><ignorant of nuclear physics>. illiterate applies to either an absolute or a relative inability to read and write<much of the population is still illiterate>. unlettered implies ignorance of the knowledge gained by reading<an allusion meaningless to the unlettered>. untutored may imply lack of schooling in the arts and ways of civilization<strange monuments built by an untutored people>. unlearned suggests ignorance of advanced subjects<poetry not for academics but for the unlearned masses>.

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