Difficulty Level
intermediate
Translations
🇩🇪 Eine Person, die keine Bildung hat.
, 🇪🇸 persona ignorante
, 🇮🇹 persona ignorante
, 🇵🇹 alguém que é desavisado ou mal informado
, 🇨🇳 无知或缺乏信息的人
, 🇯🇵 無学なかた、あるいは情報が少ないかた
, 🇰🇷 교육을 받지 못한 사람
, 🇸🇦 شخص جاهل أو غير مهيأ
, 🇮🇳 अनभिज्ञ या खबरी से अकर्मण्य व्यक्ति
Definition
🇫🇷 pas instruite
🇬🇧 pas instruite
Usage Examples
- Un ignorant ne sait pas lire les instructions.
- J'ai rencontré un ignorant qui ne comprenait pas l'importance de la lecture.
- Les ignorants de la classe ne participent pas aux discussions.
Etymology
French noun **ignorant** comes from Old French *ignorant*, itself borrowed from Latin *ignorāns* – the present participle of *ignōrāre*, meaning “to be ignorant, to not know” (root *ignōr-* “not know” + –āre). The word first appeared in French as an adjective and by the 15th‑16th centuries was used substantively to denote an uneducated or uninformed person; the sense “pas instruite” became solidified in the 19th century. Thus, French *ignorant* shares its Latin origin and semantic development with English *ignorant*.
Synonyms
non-initié
non-éduqué
simplet
néophyte
naïf
bête
sauvage
Antonyms
savant
érudit
éduqué
cultivé
instrué