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Meaning of Ignoramus | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs

Definitions

  1. A totally ignorant personunknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
  2. A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.

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Examples

“The problem is that visual ignoramuses, such as this writer, can't think of that many pictures and end up drawing question marks where a frog should be.”
““The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.”
““I am sorry to say your History teacher is an ignoramus! She can’t even spell ‘Bayeux’!””

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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