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ig·no·ra·mus  (gn-rms)

n. pl. ig·no·ra·mus·es

An ignorant person.

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[From New Latin ignrmus, a grand jury's endorsement upon a bill of indictment when evidence is deemed insufficient to send the case to a trial jury, from Latin, we do not know, first person pl. present tense of ignrre, to be ignorant; see ignore.]

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ignoramus [ˌɪgnəˈreɪməs]

n pl -muses

an ignorant person; fool

[from legal Latin, literally: we have no knowledge of, from Latin ignōrāre to be ignorant of; see ignore; modern usage originated from the use of Ignoramus as the name of an unlettered lawyer in a play by G. Ruggle, 17th-century English dramatist]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

ignoramus - an ignorant person                   know nothing, uneducated person unskilled person - a person who lacks technical training 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

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ignoramus

noun dunce, fool, ass, donkey, bonehead (slang), duffer (informal), simpleton, dullard, dolt, blockhead, lowbrow, putz (U.S. slang), fathead (informal), eejit (Scot. & Irish), thicko (Brit. slang), numpty (Scot. informal), doofus (slang, chiefly U.S.), numbskull or numskull I am an ignoramus regarding technical matters.

Translations

ignoramus [ˌɪgnəˈreɪməs] N → ignorante mf, inculto/a m/f

ignoramus [ˌɪgnəˈreɪməs] n → personne f ignare

ignoramus

n → Nichtswisser(in) m(f), → Ignorant(in) m(f)

ignoramus [ˌɪgnəˈreɪməs] n → ignorante m/f

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ignoramus [ˌɪgnəˈreɪməs] n → ignorante m/f