ignorant - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • fact: The man is either totally ignorant of the facts or an abject liar.
  • truth: Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie within every human being, looked outward - pushed ever outward.
  • mystery: Tho you are ignorant of some mysteries of religion, do not despond; Christ doth not give you all at once.
  • reality: What is the consequence of their proving " ignorant of the Reality in point of fact?
  • existence: They were not a people ignorant of the existence of Allah, nor did they refuse to worship Him.

Modifying Another Word

  • blissfully: To be blissfully ignorant of doubt is an easy way out, a self failure.
  • woefully: It is quite helpful to me as I am woefully ignorant when it comes to matters of economics at this level.
  • appallingly: Scott and Shackleton were not particularly interested in ice and snow and were appallingly ignorant of skis, sledges and furs.
  • profoundly: Indeed, on every subject beside mathematics, he was profoundly ignorant.
  • utterly: What is more, for the granddaughter of the chief Louver curator, she is represented as utterly ignorant of art history.
  • totally: The man is either totally ignorant of the facts or an abject liar.

Modifies a noun

  • fool: He takes Neo from being an ignorant fool, who is always in trouble with the authorities.
  • peasant: It was a stunning victory by supposedly ' ignorant European peasants ' .
  • superstition: They actually believe that they are taking part in nothing more than a modern mockery of ignorant superstitions from the past.
  • savage: No, the government thinks it can do things best without us ignorant savages butting in.
  • ancestor: We are now reaping the results of the crop sown by our ignorant ancestors.
  • prejudice: I was not offended, just pointing out that factually there is no good reason for screening a program that feeds ignorant prejudice.

Used with adjective complement

  • remain: He who remains ignorant of these, shall never be able to bring to pass any wonderful matter.
  • appear: She pretended to understand, in order not to appear ignorant.
  • seem: We will all probably seem very ignorant in a mere hundred years let alone a thousand or ten thousand.

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