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ignoramus

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Pronunciation
/ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/
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/ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/ · /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹæɪ.məs/ · /ˌəɡ.nəˈɹæɪ.məs/ · /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹe.məs/ · /ˌiɡ.noˈɾeː.mus/

Definition of ignoramus

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
    “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’!””
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noun

  1. A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
    “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’!””
  2. (dated)A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.

verb

  1. (transitive)To make such a ruling against (an indictment).

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Etymology

After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play Ignoramus by the English playwright George Ruggle; from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know, we are unacquainted with, we are ignorant of”), the first-person plural present active indicative of ignōrō (“to not know, to be unacquainted with, to be ignorant of”).

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