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Arrogance and Ignorant Definitions

Arrogance

The state or quality of being arrogant; overbearing pride.

Ignorant

Lacking education or knowledge.

Arrogance

The state of being arrogant; a type of extreme or foolish pride in which someone feels much superior to another.

Ignorant

Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge
An ignorant mistake.

Arrogance

The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption; presumption.
I hate not you for her proud arrogance.
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Ignorant

Unaware or uninformed
Was ignorant of the drug's harmful effects.

Arrogance

Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors

Ignorant

Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.

Ignorant

Not knowing (a fact or facts), unaware (of something).

Ignorant

(slang) Ill-mannered, crude.
His manner was at best off-hand, at worst totally ignorant.
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Ignorant

(obsolete) unknown; undiscovered

Ignorant

Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.

Ignorant

One who is ignorant.

Ignorant

Destitute of knowledge; uninstructed or uninformed; untaught; unenlightened.
He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides.

Ignorant

Unacquainted with; unconscious or unaware; - used with of.
Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame.

Ignorant

Unknown; undiscovered.
Ignorant concealment.
Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?

Ignorant

Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
His shipping,Poor ignorant baubles! - on our terrible seas,Like eggshells moved.
In such businessAction is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorantMore learned than the ears.
In the first ages of Christianity, not only the learned and the wise, but the ignorant and illiterate, embraced torments and death.

Ignorant

A person untaught or uninformed; one unlettered or unskilled; an ignoramous.
Did I for this take pains to teachOur zealous ignorants to preach?

Ignorant

Lacking general education or knowledge;
An ignorant man
Nescient of contemporary literature
An unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues
Exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions

Ignorant

Ignorant of the fundamentals of a given art or branch of knowledge;
Ignorant of quantum mechanics
Musically illiterate

Ignorant

Lacking basic knowledge;
How can someone that age be so ignorant?
Inexperienced and new to the real world

Ignorant

Used of things; lacking sense or awareness;
Ignorant hope
Fine innocent weather

Ignorant

Lacking knowledge or skill;
Unversed in the jargon of the social scientist

Ignorant

Lacking information or knowledge;
An unknowledgeable assistant

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