Tom is an ignoramus.
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Ignoramus
//ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs//
Synonyms for "ignoramus" (164 found)
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Related words (82)
Noun(43 words)
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12 entriesTranslations
58 translations across 26 languages.
Bashkir
1 entries- наҙан noun (totally ignorant person)
Bulgarian
1 entries- невежа noun (totally ignorant person)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 愚人 noun (totally ignorant person)
- 無知的人 /无知的人 noun (totally ignorant person)
- 笨蛋 noun (totally ignorant person)
Czech
2 entries- ignorant noun (totally ignorant person)
- nevědomec noun (totally ignorant person)
Finnish
2 entries- tolvana noun (totally ignorant person)
- tomppeli noun (totally ignorant person)
French
1 entries- ignare noun (totally ignorant person)
Georgian
1 entries- უვიცი noun (totally ignorant person)
German
4 entries- Dummkopf noun (totally ignorant person)
- Ignorant noun (totally ignorant person)
- Ignorantin noun (totally ignorant person)
- Nichtswisser noun (totally ignorant person)
Hungarian
1 entries- tudatlan (ember/alak/fráter) noun (totally ignorant person)
Icelandic
2 entries- fáfróður maður noun (totally ignorant person)
- fávís maður noun (totally ignorant person)
Irish
4 entries- abhlóir noun (totally ignorant person)
- ainbhiosán noun (totally ignorant person)
- aineolaí noun (totally ignorant person)
- amadán noun (totally ignorant person)
Italian
1 entries- ignorante noun (totally ignorant person)
Korean
1 entries- 무식쟁이 noun (totally ignorant person)
Macedonian
1 entries- незнајко noun (totally ignorant person)
Māori
1 entries- rorirori noun (totally ignorant person)
Northern Kurdish
3 entries- bêhiş noun (totally ignorant person)
- cahil noun (totally ignorant person)
- nezan noun (totally ignorant person)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- невѣжда noun (totally ignorant person)
Polish
4 entries- abnegat noun (totally ignorant person)
- abnegatka noun (totally ignorant person)
- ignorant noun (totally ignorant person)
- ignorantka noun (totally ignorant person)
Russian
4 entries- не́уч noun (totally ignorant person)
- неве́жда noun (totally ignorant person)
- незна́йка noun (totally ignorant person)
- профа́н noun (totally ignorant person)
Spanish
3 entries- chúntaro noun (totally ignorant person)
- ignaro noun (totally ignorant person)
- ignorante noun (totally ignorant person)
Swedish
1 entries- dumhuvud noun (totally ignorant person)
Tonga (Malawi)
1 entries- mujira class 1 noun (totally ignorant person)
Tumbuka
1 entries- mujira noun (totally ignorant person)
Ukrainian
4 entries- анальфабе́т noun (totally ignorant person)
- не́ук noun (totally ignorant person)
- неві́глас noun (totally ignorant person)
- незна́йко noun (totally ignorant person)
Vietnamese
1 entries- ếch ngồi đáy giếng noun (totally ignorant person)
Yiddish
1 entries- עם־האָרץ noun (totally ignorant person)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Tom is an ignoramus. He understands absolutely nothing.
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He who loves instruction loves knowledge, but whoever hates reproof is an ignoramus.
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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.
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