ignoramus

plural ignoramuses · hypercorrect plural ignorami · alternative nonstandard ignoramous

1. A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.

   “I am sorry to say your History teacher is an ignoramus! She can’t even spell ‘Bayeux’!”

   2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN

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   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.

   2006 April 18, Philip Beadle, “Mind maps: rubbish in theory, but handy in practice”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   “The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.

   2012 May 31, Clyde Haberman, quoting George F. Will, “Trying to Solve the Great Trump Mystery”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2024

plural ignoramuses

1. datedlawA grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.

present singular third person ignoramuses · participle present ignoramusing · participle past ignoramused · past ignoramused

1. transitivelawTo make such a ruling against (an indictment).