ignorant (adj.)
- awkward
- benighted
- boorish
- brainless
- callow
- crude
- discourteous
- dumb
- empty
- empty-headed
- foolish
- fresh
- gauche
- green
- groping
- gross
- headless
- ill-mannered
- illiterate
- immature
- impolite
- inane
- incognizant
- inept
- inexperienced
- ingenuous
- innocent
- insensate
- irrational
- lowbrow
- mindless
- naive
- nescient
- oblivious
- raw
- reasonless
- rude
- rusty
- senseless
- simple
- tentative
- unaccustomed
- unacquainted
- unaware
- uncivil
- uncomprehending
- unconscious
- uncouth
- uncultured
- undeveloped
- uneducated
- unenlightened
- unfamiliar
- unfledged
- unhardened
- unilluminated
- uninformed
- uninitiated
- uninstructed
- unintelligent
- unknowing
- unlearned
- unlettered
- unpracticed
- unprogressive
- unread
- unreasoning
- unripe
- unschooled
- unseasoned
- unsophisticated
- unsure
- untalented
- untaught
- unthinking
- untrained
- untried
- untutored
- unused
- unversed
- unwise
- unwitting
- unwonted
- vacuous
- weaned
- witless
It is only the ignorant who despise education.
I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil.
The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Be not ignorant of anything in a great matter or a small.
But man, proud man,
Drest in a little brief authority,
Most ignorant of what he's most assured,
His glassy essence, like an angry ape,
Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven
As make the angels weep.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
