Meaning of Ignoramus | Babel Free
ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məsDefinitions
- A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
- A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.
Equivalents
العربية
الجهول
Български
невежа
Deutsch
Dummkopf
Ignorant
Ignorantin
Nichtswisser
Nichtswisserin
unwissende Person
unwissender Mensch
Ελληνικά
ανίδεος
Français
ignare
עברית
בור
Italiano
ignorante
ქართული
უვიცი
Македонски
незнајко
Svenska
dumhuvud
Tiếng Việt
ếch ngồi đáy giếng
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.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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