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Ignorant vs Ignoring - What's the difference?

ignorant | ignoring |

As nouns the difference between ignorant and ignoring

is that ignorant is ignorant person, ignoramus while ignoring is the act by which something is ignored.

As a verb ignoring is

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ignorant

English

Alternative forms

* ignoraunt (obsolete)

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
  • * Tillotson
    • 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.
  • * Dryden
    • Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame.
  • (slang) Ill-mannered, crude.
    • His manner was at best off-hand, at worst totally ignorant .
  • (obsolete) unknown; undiscovered
  • * Shakespeare
    • ignorant concealment
  • * Shakespeare
    • Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?
  • Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
  • * Shakespeare
    • His shipping, / Poor ignorant baubles! — on our terrible seas, / Like eggshells moved.

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * ignorantly

    Related terms

    * ignorable * ignoramus * ignorance * ignore

    ignoring

    English

    Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is ignored.
  • * 1999 , David Lewis, Papers in Metaphysics and Epistemology (volume 2, page 437)
    • We ignore various far-fetched possibilities, as hard-headed detectives should. But S'' does not ignore them. ''S'' is by profession a sceptical epistemologist. He never ignores much of anything. If it is our own ignorings that matter, then we are wrong, because ''S never knew much of anything.

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