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IGNORAMUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ignoramus mean?
• IGNORAMUS (noun)
The noun IGNORAMUS has 1 sense:
1. an ignorant person
Familiarity information: IGNORAMUS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ignorant person
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
ignoramus; know nothing; uneducated person
Hypernyms ("ignoramus" is a kind of...):
unskilled person (a person who lacks technical training)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ignoramus"):
aliterate; aliterate person (a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources)
illiterate; illiterate person; nonreader (a person unable to read)
Context examples
"Any ignoramus can hand down his worthless memory by imposing it upon a mountain or a river. I need no such monument."
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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