Ignoramus vs Simpleton - What's the difference?
ignoramus | simpleton |
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 simple person lacking common sense.
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As nouns the difference between ignoramus and simpleton
is that ignoramus is a totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool or ignoramus can be (legal|dated) a grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial while simpleton is (pejorative) a simple person lacking common sense.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)simpleton
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=Baron Cohen’s new creation (and the previous ones, too) has its roots in Groucho characters like Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, and the concept of a pompous simpleton running a rogue nation has obvious parallels to Duck Soup’s Rufus T. Firefly, who leads the country of Fredonia to a needless and highly preventable war. }}
- The stranger had crossed a sacred line. He had mentioned the men's mothers. Nothing could get him out of a beating now, even the fact that he was obviously a simpleton'. Albeit a ' simpleton with a good vocabulary.