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ignorance - 7 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | ignorance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unintelligence, inexperience |
| Synonyms: | bewilderment, blindness, darkness, disregard, fog*, incapacity, innocence, naiveté, oblivion, simplicity, vagueness, benightedness, callowness, crudeness, denseness, dumbness, empty-headedness, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incomprehension, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, nescience, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness |
| Antonyms: | competence, cultivation, education, experience, intelligence, knowledge, literacy, talent, wisdom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | ignorance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
a stranger to, absent, addle, anile, apish, asinine, at fault, at sea, at the end of his tether, babbling, babish, babyish, beef, beetle, belated, benighted, bewildered, bigoted, blatant, blinded, blindfold, blockish, blunder, blunt, boeotic, bookless, bovine, brainless, caught tripping, childish, childlike, clod, dansey, dimsighted, diverted, doltish, driveling, dull, dull as a beetle, dull, eccentric, empty, empty, fat, fat, feeble, frivolous, giddy, glaikit, gratuitous, green, gross, half, having no head, heavy, hoodwinked, idiotic, idle, ignorant, ill, ill, ill, impalpable, improper, in the dark, inapprehensible, inapt, incogitable, incogitant, inconsiderate, inconsistent, indocible, inept, inexpedient, infantile, infantine, injudicious, insensate, insipient, insulse, irrational, lack, maggoty, misinformed, muddle, narrow, nonsensical, not bright, not to be thought of, novel, obtuse, off one's mind, parviscient, pedantic, philistine, pig, puerile, puzzle, reasonless, ridiculous, rude, sappy, senseless, shallow, shallow, short, silly, simple, sleeveless, sottish, spoony, stolid, stupid, superficial, thick, unacquainted, unapprehended, unapprized, unascertained, unaware, unbookish, unconscious, unconsidered, unconversant, uncultivated, undiscerning, undreamt of, uneducated, unendowed with reason, unenlightened, unexplained, unexplored, ungifted, unguided, unheard of, unideal, uninformed, uninitiated, uninstructed, unintellectual, unintelligent, uninvestigated, unknowing, unknown, unlearned, unlettered, unoccupied, unperceived, unphilosophical, unread, unreasonable, unschooled, untaught, unteachable, unthinking, unthought of, untutored, unversed, unweeting, unwise, unwitting, useless, vacant, vacuous, wanting, wantwit, weak, weak in the upper story, weak, weetless, without reason, witless
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| Main Entry: | youth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | early period in life of animate being |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, bloom, boyhood, childhood, ignorance, immaturity, innocence, minority, prime, puberty, salad days*, awkward age, girlhood, greenness, inexperience, jejuneness, jejunity, juvenescence, springtide, springtime of life, teens, tender age, youngness, youthfulness |
| Antonyms: | maturity, adulthood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awkwardness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clumsiness; inelegance |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, coarseness, ignorance, inability, incompetence, ineptitude, rudeness, amateurishness, boorishness, cloddishness, crudeness, gawkiness, gracelessness, greenness, ineptness, inexpertness, maladroitness, oafishness, tactlessness, uncoordination, uncouthness, ungainliness, unskillfulness |
| Antonyms: | dexterity, elegance, grace, skill, artfulness, handiness |
| Main Entry: | stupidity |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | dullness of mind |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, apathy, fatuity, idiocy, ignorance, imprudence, incapacity, ineptitude, insensibility, lunacy, nonsense, silliness, simplicity, slowness, slowness, sluggishness, stupefaction, stupor, weakness, asininity, battiness*, brainlessness, doltishness, fatuousness, feeble-mindedness, imbecility, injudiciousness, nitwittedness*, obtuseness, puerility, shallowness, stolidity, stupidness, thick-headedness, weak-mindedness |
| Antonyms: | intelligence, judgment, wisdom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | innocence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmlessness, naiveté |
| Synonyms: | artlessness, frankness, freshness, ignorance, lack, purity, simplicity, sincerity, virtue, candidness, credulousness, forthrightness, guilelessness, gullibility, inexperience, ingenuousness, innocuousness, innoxiousness, inoffensiveness, nescience, plainness, unaffectedness, unawareness, unfamiliarity, unknowingness, unsophistication, unworldliness |
| Antonyms: | experience, impurity, knowledge, treacherousness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | immaturity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inexperience |
| Synonyms: | ignorance, imperfection, babyishness, callowness, childish behavior, childishness, greenness, incompleteness, infantilism, puerility, rawness |
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