Synonyms and Antonyms of ignorant
1
lacking in education or the knowledge gained from books
- they may be poor, ignorant farmers, but they are not stupid
analphabetic, benighted, dark, illiterate, nonliterate, rude, simple, uneducated, uninstructed, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unschooled, untaught, untutored
functionally illiterate, innumerate, semiliterate, unknowledgeable
artless, lowbrow, philistine, uncultivated, uncultured
callow, green, inexperienced, innocent, naive (or naïve)
unsophisticated
raw, unskilled, untrained
brainless, dumb, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, stupid, witless
foolish, senseless, silly
brilliant, intelligent, smart
experienced, expert, trained
erudite, learned, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic), scholarly
cultivated, cultured, highbrow, intellectual
sophisticated
acquainted, aware, familiar
2
not informed about or aware of something
- he was ignorant of their wedding plans
clueless, incognizant, innocent, insensible, nescient, oblivious, unacquainted, unaware, unconscious, uninformed, unknowing, unmindful, unwitting
