Ignoramus vs Idiot - What's the difference?
ignoramus | idiot |
A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.
(legal, dated) A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.
English eponyms
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(pejorative) A person of low general intelligence.
(obsolete, medicine, psychology) A person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old.
As nouns the difference between ignoramus and idiot
is that ignoramus is a totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool while idiot is a person of low general intelligence.ignoramus
English
Etymology 1
After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play by the English playwright Georges Ruggle; from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Directly from (etyl) .Noun
(ignoramuses)idiot
English
Alternative forms
* eejit * idjit, idget (eye dialect)Noun
(en noun)- usage note This may be used pejoratively, as an insult. It is a weak insult, however, and between close friends, family members, or lovers, is often completely nonaggressive.
