Nescient

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Destitute of knowledge; ignorant; characterized by or exhibiting nescience.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. an ignorant person
  • noun. an unbeliever
  • adjective. ignorant, unlearned
  • adjective. unbelieving
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  • adjective. holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible
  • adjective. uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
  • Word Usage
    "Because, in my opinion, nescient arm-chair security analysts with an axe to grind sure as hell shouldn't be able to declassify thousands of government documents and unfetter them into cyberspace."
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    ignorant