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Ignoramus

//ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs// noun, verb

Definitions

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."
2
A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial. dated
3
an ignorant person wordnet

Verb

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

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 (“I do not know, I am unacquainted with, I am ignorant of”).

Etymology 2

Directly from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know”).

Etymology 3

Directly from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know”).

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