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ignoramus

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9 lettersPronunciation /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/Part of speech nounSorted agimnorsuStarts with IEnds with S0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. an ignorant person

Word origin

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 (“to not know, to be unacquainted with, to be ignorant of”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • “The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.
  • “I am sorry to say your History teacher is an ignoramus! She can’t even spell ‘Bayeux’!”

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