ignorant
adjective
lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned.
ignorantly
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a word derived from
ignorant.
Example Sentences
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Yulissa later apologised, saying on Instagram she used the offensive term "ignorantly, not fully understanding the weight, history, or pain behind it".
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2025
Escobar apologized for using the slur, writing in a statement that she “used it ignorantly, not fully understanding the weight, history, or pain behind it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2025
When available for interviews, Jackson still speaks highly of the team that drafted him and believed in his quarterbacking gifts when others ignorantly called for a position change.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2023
Some of us — both ignorantly arrogant and arrogantly ignorant — have fallen into the trap of disbelieving all facts.
From Salon ● Dec. 29, 2022
Scientists in those fields tend to be ignorantly disdainful of fields to which those methodologies are inappropriate and which must therefore seek other methodologies—such as my own research areas of ecology and evolutionary biology.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
