uninformed

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

stupid
stupidSome people are too stupid to realize what's bad for them.
foolishShe was really foolish to quit her job like that.
sillyIt was silly of you to go out in the sun without a hat.
crazyYou'd be absolutely crazy to marry that man.
dumbUSShe was terrified of asking dumb questions.
UKinformal
not polite or showing respect: 无礼的，不敬的
Ignorant lout!没礼貌的混蛋！

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unaware
be in the darkidiom
be on another planetidiom
benighted
benightedly
blind spot
blindly
foggy
Goodness/God/Heaven/Christ knowsidiom
illiterate
imperceptive
in blissful ignoranceidiom
innumeracy
innumerate
insensate
unacquainted
unattuned
unawakened
unaware
unawareness
your guess is as good as mineidiom

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ignorant | American Dictionary

ignorant
adjective
us/ˈɪɡ·nər·ənt/
having no knowledge or awareness of something or of things in general:
We were very young, ignorant, unskilled men.

ignorance

noun[ U ]us/ˈɪɡ·nər·əns/
You have to assume that incoming students have an almost total ignorance of the rules of grammar.

Examples of ignorant

ignorant
There are four possible reasons : we reasonably conclude that we don't have enough time/resources ; we're unreasonable ; we're ignorant ; and/or we're selfish.
If they are indigent, vulnerable, and ignorant, they are likely to be antecedently superstitious.
However, this does not appear to be very common because very few children claimed to be ignorant about their linguistic background.
In the principal experimental conditions, children first heard either an ignorant or a knowledgeable speaker link a novel word with one of three toys.
However, in the event that an ignorant speaker's guess is wrong, an encoding and marking strategy could lead to some difficulties.
Learning words from knowlegeable versus ignorant speakers : links between preschoolers' theory of mind and semantic development.
Only when ignorant of the objects' intended functions did children tend to use perceptual features to create substantial numbers of names.
Wyvern justifies keeping the poor ignorant by sympathizing with the pain education would cause them.
Your influence in politics is so small that once the costs of becoming informed are taken into account, individuals often choose to remain rationally ignorant.
Such resurrections often come at a price, directors seeming to believe that audiences are either intolerant of ancien régime norms, or are simply ignorant.
Indeed, the ideal scholar of this new economics was happily (and purposefully) ignorant of (or indifferent towards) theories.
Unless there are very many genes, the outcome depends on genetic details of which we are usually ignorant.
Patients may be ignorant of their own level of ignorance or subject to even higher order forms of ignorance.
Such distinctions are difficult in practice because the members of the target group are ignorant of the fact that they need help.
Specifically, if an ignorant speaker provides a word-referent link, there is no evidence to suggest that there is any negative effect on children's subsequent learning.
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