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Definition: Ignoramus |
IgnoramusNoun1. An ignorant person. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ignoramus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Ignoramus \Ig`no*ra"mus\, noun. [Latin expression, we are ignorant. See Ignore.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about. Dumble was an ignoramus, Mumble was for learning famous. Mumble said one day to Dumble: "Ignorance should be more humble. Not a spark have you of knowledge That was got in any college." Dumble said to Mumble: "Truly You're self-satisfied unduly. Of things in college I'm denied A knowledge -- you of all beside." Borelli. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Ignoramus One who ignores the knowledge of something; one really unacquainted with it. It is an ancient law term. The grand jury used to write lgnoramus on the back of indictments "not found" or not be sent into court. Hence ignore. The present custom is to write "No true bill." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: IgnoramusSynonyms: know nothing (n), uneducated person (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Ignoramus | Noun: ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ignoramus |
| English words defined with "ignoramus": Ignoramuses. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ignoramus": Ignoramus Jury. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Ignoramus" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (be ignorant of, be unfamiliar with, disregard, forgive, ignoramus, ignore, not know, pardon, we do not know). |
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Screenplays | If I ever see that snout-nosed ignoramus again (Knight Rider; writing credit: Cory Applebaum; Bob Benedetto) Ignoramus. You can't have a deputy pope (Nuns on the Run; writing credit: Jonathan Lynn) Uh, I mean shut up, you scrupulous ignoramus! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird) | |
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| "Ignoramus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ignoramus" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ignoramus | 13 |
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| Language | Translations for "ignoramus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | injorant (ignorant, letterless), i paedukuar (dark, ill bred, ill mannered, illiberal, indocile, inurbane, mannerless, rude, uneducated, unenlightened, unintelligent, unlearned, unmannerly, unnurtured, unschooled, untaught, untrained, untutored, without cultural interests), i paditur (accused, ignorant, impious, incognizant, inconversant, not versed, respondent, unbeknown, uninformed, unlearned). (various references) | |
Arabic | عدم معرفة (disclaim). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | невежа (heathen, know-nothing). (various references) | |
Czech | ignorant, primitiv (primitive), hlupák (ass, blockhead, booby, chump, dolt, dotterel, dottrel, dunce, dupe, fool, gaby, half wit, idiot, jobbernowl, leather-head, loggerhead, pudding-head, sap-head, simpleton, thick-head, tomfool). (various references) | |
Farsi | جاهل (Uninformed, Unknowable, Unknowing, Unwise), ادم نادان (Gander), شخص کاملابی سواد. (various references) | |
Finnish | tolvana (dunce, fool), tollo (dunce, fool). (various references) | |
French | ignare. (various references) | |
German | ignorant (ignorant). (various references) | |
Greek | βλάκασ (booby, chump, coot, dimwit, dolt, dope, duffer, gander, goof, goon, gudgeon, imbecile, jackass, lummox, moron, mutt, nincompoop, noodle, oaf, simp, simpleton, slob, stupid, sucker, tomfool, zany), αμαθήσ (benighted, ignorant, unlearned). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עם הארץ, אנאלפבת, הדיוט (common folk, fool, laic, lay, layman, plebeian), גולם (awkward person, boor, clod, dummy, embryo, larva, lubber, lummox, lunkhead, oaf, pupa, robot). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tudatlan ember (bushwhacker), tudatlan (dunce, ignorant, know-nothing, nescient, not to know beans, opaque, uninformed, unknowing, untutored). (various references) | |
Italian | ignorante (abecedarian, addled, clodhopper, dunce, foolish, ignorant, ill-informed, illiterate, impolite, nescient, rude, stupid, uneducated, unillumined, uninformed, unknowable). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 盲 (blind man, blindness, ignorance). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ふつつかもの, めしい (blind man, blindness, ignorance), めくら (blind man, blindness, ignorance). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ignoramusay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ignorante (artless, benighted, dunce, heathen, ignorant, know-nothing, letterless, nescient, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, uneducated, unenlightened, uninformed, unintelligent, unlearned, unlettered, unnurtured, unposted, unschooled, untaught, untutored, unversed), estpido (idiot, idiotic, imbecile), burro (ass, donkey, dull, fool, idiot, jackass, moke, mule, neddy, silly, stupid). (various references) | |
Romanian | ignorant (benighted, cipher, dark, dunce, ignorant, illiterate, inexpert, innocent, know-nothing, nescient, rude, unknowing, unlearned). (various references) | |
Russian | невежда (know-nothing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | neznalica (know-nothing, letterless, nescient). (various references) | |
Spanish | ignorante (abecedarian, benighted, brainless, dark, ignorant, incognizant, know-nothing, nescient, uninformed). (various references) | |
Swedish | okunnig person (know-nothing), fåkunnig (ignorant, inconversant), dumhuvud (bullhead, duffer, dunce, dunderhead, fool, half wit, jobbernowl, jolterhead, leather-head, lemon, lunkhead, nincompoop, noddy, noodle, numskull, pudding-head, squarehead). (various references) | |
Thai | คนโง่ (apeth, berk, birdbrain, bozo, chucklehead, chump, clod, clodpole, div, doughnut, dove, dummy, dunce, featherbrain, fool, half-wit, loon, muddlehead, mug, muggins, muppet, mut, nerd, nincompoop, nit, noddy, oaf, schlepp, silly, simp, simple, simpleton, thicko). (various references) | |
Turkish | kara cahil (benighted, illiterate, utterly ignorant), cahil (benighted, ignorant, illiterate, nescient, rude, uneducated, unenlightened, unilluminated, uninformed, unknowing, unlearned, unlettered, unread, untutored, yahoo). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | неук (barbarian, illiterate, know-nothing, nitwit), невіглас. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người ngu dốt (blockhead, know-nothing, light-brain, pudding-head). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ignoramus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | 2 Corinthians Chapter 2, Verse 11 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Ina mh pleonekthqwmen upo tou satana ou gar autou ta nohmata agnooumen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Ut non circumveniamur a Satana non enim ignoramus cogitationes eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | That we be not disseyued of Sathanas; for we knowen hise thouytis. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | Lest Satan shuld prevet vs. For his thoughtes are not vnknowen vnto vs. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | So that Satan may not get the better of us: for we are not without knowledge of his designs. |
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| Language | 2 Corinthians Chapter 2, Verse 11 |
| Cebuano | aron kita dili malupigan ni Satanas; kay kita nasayud na man sa iyang mga laraw. |
| Chinese | 免 得 撒 但 趁 著 機 會 勝 過 我 們 ． 因 我 們 並 非 不 曉 得 他 的 詭 計 。 |
| Croatian | da nas ne nadmudri Sotona. Ta znamo njegove namjere! |
| Danish | for at vi ikke skulle bedrages af Satan; thi hans Anslag ere os ikke ubekendte. |
| Dutch | Want zijn gedachten zijn ons niet onbekend. |
| Finnish | ettei saatana pääsisi meistä voitolle; sillä hänen juonensa eivät ole meille tuntemattomat. |
| French | afin de ne pas laisser à Satan l`avantage sur nous, car nous n`ignorons pas ses desseins. |
| German | auf daß wir nicht übervorteilt werden vom Satan; denn uns ist nicht unbewußt, was er im Sinn hat. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Saya lakukan itu supaya Iblis jangan mengambil kesempatan untuk menguasai kita; sebab kita tahu rencana-rencananya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | supaya jangan kita dialahkan oleh daya Iblis, karena kita mengetahui muslihatnya. |
| Italian | per non cadere in balìa di satana, di cui non ignoriamo le macchinazioni. |
| Maori | Kei ra rungatia mai tatou e Hatana: ehara hoki tatou i te kuware ki ana rauhanga. |
| Norwegian | for ikke er vi uvitende om hans tanker. |
| Portuguese | porque não ignoramos as suas maquinações. |
| Rumanian | ca sq nu lqsqm pe Satana sq aibq un ckwtig dela noi; cqci nu skntem kn newtiinyq despre planurile lui. |
| Russian | ЮФПВЩ ОЕ УДЕМБМ ОБН ХЭЕТВБ УБФБОБ, ЙВП ОБН ОЕ ВЕЪЩЪЧЕУФОЩ ЕЗП ХНЩУМЩ. |
| Shuar | Kame uunt iwianch Satanás iin emestampratajtsa wakerana nusha nékaji. Tuma asamtai, Túrawain tusar tsankuratniuitji. |
| Swahili | ili tusimpe nafasi Shetani atudanganye; maana twaijua mipango yake ilivyo. |
| Swedish | Jag vill nämligen icke att vi skola lida förfång av Satan; ty vad han har i sinnet, därom äro vi icke i okunnighet. |
| Uma | Toe pai' ku'uli' agina ta'ampungi-i-hawo, bona neo' mpai' napoka'alai Magau' Anudaa' mposori-ta. Apa' ta'inca moto-mi akala-na. |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ignoramus": ignoramuses. (additional references) | |
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"Ignoramus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ignoramous, ignorans, ignormus, ignoromus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ignoramus" (pronounced i'gnerā"mus) |
| 4 | -ā" m u s | famous, mandamus, ramus, shamus. |
| 3 | -m u s | animus, anonymous, autonomous, blasphemous, dermis, enormous, epidermis, grimace, hippopotamus, humus, infamous, isthmus, litmus, magnanimous, monogamous, polygamous, posthumous, premise, primus, promise, pumice, Shamas, synonymous, thalamus, thermos, unanimous, venomous. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: origanums. | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-i-m-n-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: arousing, gouramis, organism, organums, origanum. | |
-2 letters: amusing, armings, giaours, gourami, isogram, margins, morgans, mousing, organum, origans, ourangs, roaming, rousing, signora, soaring, souring, uranism. | |
-3 letters: amigos, amnios, amours, animus, argons, arming, arsino, gamins, giaour, girons, gonium, grains, granum, grison, groans, groins, guanos, guiros, imagos, inarms, mangos, manors, margin, miaous, minors, morgan, mourns, mungos, muring. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-i-m-n-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: ausforming, gramineous, migrainous, sporangium. | |
+2 letters: gourmandise, gourmandism, ignoramuses, outsmarting. | |
+3 letters: gourmandises, gourmandisms, gourmandizes, housewarming, pelargoniums, spermagonium. | |
+4 letters: angiospermous, bildungsroman, compurgations, counterimages, gastrocnemius, graminivorous, housewarmings, mousetrapping, promulgations, somersaulting, superorganism, zoosporangium. | |
+5 letters: argumentations, bildungsromane, bildungsromans, discouragement, macroglobulins, megasporangium, osmoregulation, spermatogonium, superorganisms, troublemakings. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Bible Trace 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Bibliography |
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