Ignorant vs Intolerant - What's the difference?
ignorant | intolerant |
Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
* Tillotson
* Dryden
(slang) Ill-mannered, crude.
(obsolete) unknown; undiscovered
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
* Shakespeare
Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.
* Arbuthnot
Not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas. indisposed to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; impatient of dissent or opposition; denying or refusing the right of private opinion or choice in others; inclined to persecute or suppress dissent.
One who is intolerant; a bigot.
* 1856 , John David Chambers, Strictures, legal and historical, on the judgment of the Consistory Court of London, in December, 1855, in the Case of Westerton Versus Liddell
As adjectives the difference between ignorant and intolerant
is that ignorant is unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance while intolerant is unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.As a noun intolerant is
one who is intolerant; a bigot.ignorant
English
Alternative forms
* ignoraunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- 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 of guilt, I fear not shame.
- His manner was at best off-hand, at worst totally ignorant .
- ignorant concealment
- Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?
- His shipping, / Poor ignorant baubles! — on our terrible seas, / Like eggshells moved.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* ignorantlyintolerant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I am lactose-intolerant , so I can't drink milk.
- The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses.
Noun
(en noun)- a portion of the prejudice which darkened the spirits of these intolerants , might perhaps have cast its shadow over him.