ignoramus

Roget category 493

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.5. Results of reasoning
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#493. Ignoramus

noun

ignoramus, dunce — wooden spoon — no scholar.
[insulting terms for ignorant person:] (imbecility) 499 (folly) 501 moron, imbecile, idiot — fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole [Vulg.].
[person with superficial knowledge] dilettante, sciolist^†, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar — charlatan — wiseacre.
greenhorn, amateur etc. (dupe) 547 — novice, tyro etc. (learner) 541 — numskull.
lubber etc. (bungler) 701 — fool etc. 501 — pedant etc. 492.

adjective

bookless^†, shallow — ignorant etc. 491.

phrase

a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits" [Pope].

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