Ignoramus
Definitions
- 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
Françaisignare
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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