4. Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly. His shipping, Poor ignorant baubles! — on our terrible seas, Like eggshells moved. Shak.
Syn. — Uninstructed; untaught; unenlightened; uninformed; unlearned; unlettered; illiterate. — Ignorant, Illiterate. Ignorant denotes want of knowledge, either as to single subject or information in general; illiterate refers to an ignorance of letters, or of knowledge acquired by reading and study. In the Middle Ages, a great proportion of the higher classes were illiterate, and yet were far from being ignorant, especially in regard to war and other active pursuits. In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant More learned than the ears. Shak. In the first ages of Christianity, not only the learned and the wise, but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and death. Tillotson.
IGNORANT
Ig"no*rant, n.
Defn: A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled;
an ignoramous.
Did I for this take pains to teach Our zealous ignorants to preach
Denham.
IGNORANTISM
Ig"no*rant*ism, n.
Defn: The spirit of those who extol the advantage to ignorance; obscuriantism.
IGNORANTIST
Ig"no*rant*ist, n.
Defn: One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.
IGNORANTLY
Ig"no*rant*ly, adv.
Defn: In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.