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Synonyms for ignorance
noun unintelligence, inexperience

disregard
illiteracy
bewilderment
incapacity
darkness
unconsciousness
rawness
fog
unawareness

simplicity
innocence
vagueness
blindness
unfamiliarity
nescience
oblivion
dumbness
naiveté

benightedness
insensitivity
philistinism
unenlightenment
uncouthness
sciolism
incomprehension
callowness
shallowness

denseness
crudeness
obtuseness
empty-headedness
half-knowledge
inscience
lack of education
mental incapacity
unscholarliness

Antonyms for ignorance

cognizance
competence
education
knowledge

literacy
talent
wisdom
understanding

cultivation
experience
intelligence

Concept Thesaurus for word ignorance
Synonyms – noun

ignorance
ignorance crasse
blindness
unknown quantities
sealed book
dark ages.
bewilderment (uncertainty)
charlatism

nescience
unacquaintance
incomprehension
x
terra incognita
[Imperfect knowledge] smattering
incapacity.
Philister

tabula rasa
unconsciousness
inexperience
y
virgin soil
sciolism
[Affectation of knowledge] pedantry
Philistine.

crass ignorance
darkness
simplicity.
z.
unexplored ground
glimmering
charlatanry

Synonyms – verbs

be ignorant
know nothing of
not have the remotest idea
keep in ignorance (conceal)
wonder whether

not know
have no idea
not know chalk from cheese.
see through a glass darkly
not know what to make of (unintelligibility)

know not
have no notion
ignore
have a film over the eyes
not pretend to take upon

know not what
have no conception
be blind to
have a glimmering
not take upon one self to say.

Synonyms – adjectives

ignorant
unacquainted
unconscious
unconversant.
uninstructed
unschooled
behind the age.
rude
unread
unlettered
in the dark
blindfolded
at the end of his tether
unknown
uninvestigated
concealed

nescient
unapprized
witless
uninformed
untaught
misguided
shallow
empty
uninformed
unbookish
benighted
hoodwinked
at fault
unapprehended
unexplored
novel.

unknowing
unwitting
weetless
uncultivated
uninitiated
unenglightened
superficial
half-learned
uneducated
empty-headed
belated
misinformed
at sea (uncertain)
unexplained
unheard of

unaware
unweeting
a stranger to
unversed
untutored
Phillistine
green
illiterate
unlearned
pedantic;
blinded
au bout de son latin
caught tripping.
unascertained
not perceived

Synonyms – phrases
“ignorance never settles a question” [Disraeli]; quantum animis erroris inest! [Ovid]; “small Latin and less Greek” [B. Jonson]; “that unlettered small-knowing soul” [Love’s Labor’s Lost]; “there is no darkness but
Antonyms

knowledge

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Other adjectives related to ignorance

a stranger to
apish
at the end of his tether
beef
bewildered
blindfold
boeotic
caught tripping
dansey
driveling
eccentric
fat
glaikit
half
idiotic
ill
in the dark
incogitant
inept
injudicious
irrational
muddle
not to be thought of
parviscient
puerile
rude
shallow
sleeveless
stupid
unapprehended
unbookish
uncultivated
unendowed with reason
ungifted
uninformed
unintelligent
unlearned
unphilosophical
untaught
untutored
unwitting
wanting
weak in the upper story

absent
asinine
babbling
beetle
bigoted
blockish
bookless
childish
dimsighted
dull
empty
feeble
gratuitous
having no head
idle
ill
inapprehensible
inconsiderate
inexpedient
insensate
lack
narrow
novel
pedantic
puzzle
sappy
short
sottish
superficial
unapprized
unconscious
undiscerning
unenlightened
unguided
uninitiated
uninvestigated
unlettered
unread
unteachable
unversed
useless
wantwit
weetless

addle
at fault
babish
belated
blatant
blunder
bovine
childlike
diverted
dull
empty
frivolous
green
heavy
ignorant
impalpable
inapt
inconsistent
infantile
insipient
maggoty
nonsensical
obtuse
philistine
reasonless
senseless
silly
spoony
thick
unascertained
unconsidered
undreamt of
unexplained
unheard of
uninstructed
unknowing
unoccupied
unreasonable
unthinking
unweeting
vacant
weak
without reason

anile
at sea
babyish
benighted
blinded
blunt
brainless
clod
doltish
dull as a beetle
fat
giddy
gross
hoodwinked
ill
improper
incogitable
indocible
infantine
insulse
misinformed
not bright
off one’s mind
pig
ridiculous
shallow
simple
stolid
unacquainted
unaware
unconversant
uneducated
unexplored
unideal
unintellectual
unknown
unperceived
unschooled
unthought of
unwise
vacuous
weak
witless

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