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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

無知な

Pronunciation / Transliteration: muchi na

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ignorant/ˈɪɡ.nər.ənt/
adjectiveCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #2500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"彼はその問題について無知だった。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Lacking knowledge, information, or awareness in a general or specific area.

    "Many consumers remain ignorant of the environmental impact of fast fashion."
  2. 2

    Discourteous, rude, or showing a lack of proper manners and social refinement.

    "It was completely ignorant of him to interrupt the speaker without apologizing."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'ignorantem', the accusative form of 'ignorans', meaning 'not knowing', from the verb 'ignorare' (to not know, to be unacquainted with). It entered Middle English via Old French in the late 14th century, initially retaining the general sense of lacking knowledge or awareness before developing more pejorative connotations of rudeness or incivility.

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