ignoramusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

After the ignorant lawyer Ignoramus, the titular character in the 1615 play Ignoramus by the English playwright George Ruggle; from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know, we are unacquainted with, we are ignorant of”), the first-person plural present active indicative of ignōrō (“I do not know, I am unacquainted with, I am ignorant of”).

別の表記

• ignoramous (nonstandard)

名詞

ignoramus (plural ignoramuses or (hypercorrect) ignorami)

1. A totally ignorant person—unknowledgeable, uneducated, or uninformed; a fool.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ignoramus

   • 2006 April 18, Philip Beadle, “Mind maps: rubbish in theory, but handy in practice”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The problem is that visual ignoramuses, such as this writer, can't think of that many pictures and end up drawing question marks where a frog should be.

   • 2012 May 31, Clyde Haberman, quoting George F. Will, “Trying to Solve the Great Trump Mystery”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 25 June 2024:

     “The cost of appearing with this bloviating ignoramus is obvious, it seems to me,” he said on “This Week,” the ABC News program.

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     “I am sorry to say your History teacher is an ignoramus! She can’t even spell ‘Bayeux’!”

使用する際の注意点

The hypercorrect plural form ignorami is seen by most as humorous and nonstandard, as the word derives from a Latin verb, not from a noun.

派生語

語源 2

Directly from Latin ignōrāmus (“we do not know”).

名詞

ignoramus (plural ignoramuses)

1. (law, dated) A grand jury's ruling on an indictment when the evidence is determined to be insufficient to send the case to trial.

動詞

ignoramus (third-person singular simple present ignoramuses, present participle ignoramusing, simple past and past participle ignoramused)

1. (law, transitive) To make such a ruling against (an indictment).

アナグラム

• graminous, origanums

語源 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

ignōrāmus

1. first-person plural present active indicative of ignōrō

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

ignōrāmus

1. first-person plural pluperfect active indicative of ignōscō