Posted by Luca Brasi on March 16, 2001 at 18:57:22:
In Reply to: Re: American Mark's Castlebar Diary posted by Spartacus on March 16, 2001 at 18:42:21:
ig·no·rant (IG-nur-nt)
adj.
1)Lacking education or knowledge.
2)Showing or arising from a lack of education or knowledge: "an ignorant mistake".
3)Unaware or uninformed.
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[Middle English ignoraunt, from Old French ignorant, from Latin ignrns, ignrant-, present participle of ignrre, to be ignorant, not to know; see gn- in Indo-European Roots.]
Although ignorant can be seen as an insult ("he's ignorant of proper manners") it is clearly not what I meant here.