ignoramus

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/    美 /ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹeɪ.məs/|/ˌɪɡ.nəˈɹæɪ.məs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
    — 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.
  2. A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial. dated
动词 v.
  1. To make such a ruling against (an indictment). transitive

词形变化

ignoramuses plural ignorami hypercorrect,plural ignoramous alternative,nonstandard ignoramuses plural ignoramuses present,singular,third-person ignoramusing participle,present ignoramused participle,past ignoramused past

词汇关系

近义词
dunce ignoramus jay know-nothing lack-latin mumpsimus nescient numskull rube wild-ass
反义词
genius scholar
上位词
mentally deficient person
下位词
illiterate ultracrepidarian
相关词
charlatan dabbler dilettante smatterer wiseacre ignorant beginner bumpkin idiot fool

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
Directly from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know”).
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