Negligible vs Ignorant - What's the difference?
negligible | ignorant |
Able to be ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
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Unknowledgeable or uneducated; characterized by ignorance.
* Tillotson
* Dryden
(slang) Ill-mannered, crude.
(obsolete) unknown; undiscovered
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
Resulting from ignorance; foolish; silly.
* Shakespeare
As an adjective negligible
is able to be ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.As a noun ignorant is
ignorant person, ignoramus.negligible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- We found errors, but their effects were negligible .
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Synonyms
* ignorable * neglectable * trivial * See alsoAntonyms
* important * significant * innegligible * unignorableignorant
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.