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"What is an ignoramus?" - this question can often be heard. We will be happy to explain the meaning of the word and give examples.

Meaning

An ignoramus is a person who is not enlightened in some areas of knowledge. Is it worth talking about the relativity of this concept? There are people who can build or design an airplane, but they may well not read fiction books at all and not understand why Leo Tolstoy or, for example, George Orwell is so great.

Sherlock Holmes as an example of a brilliant ignoramus

After we understand what an ignoramus is, we can turn to examples. Of course, this will be a literary example, or rather a cinematic one.

Let us recall the famous conversation in the film "Acquaintance" between Holmes and Dr. Watson, where the latter tells the former directly that he is a man of keen intelligence, but ignorant in all other aspects. Naturally, this meant education. Holmes knows almost nothing about Copernicus, Joan of Arc and Aristotle, although the name of the first on this list seems vaguely familiar to him. Watson is shocked by the cultural illiteracy of his future colleague, but Holmes is not embarrassed and contrasts Watson’s historical and humanitarian knowledge with his own, purely practical skills, for example, the ability to distinguish the dirt of one London street from another or the ashes of one cigar from another.

Therefore, if the reader is asked the question of what an ignoramus is, then he, without doubt, can say: this is Sherlock Holmes (with certain reservations). There are interesting discoveries, and completely unexpected ones.

And Watson, meanwhile, thinks with horror about the utilitarian world, where no one is interested in philosophy, literature and history, but only in what is necessary for life. Holmes reassures his friend and says that he is the only one. I wonder if the famous detective knows the word “ignorant”? It’s not a fact, because he doesn’t need it at all for his business.

Almost 40 years have passed since the film was released, because it was released in 1979. And now we modern people, we understand that Holmes’ ignorance is not the worst thing imaginable. Holmes may be an ignoramus, but he is a passionate man. Perhaps he would be interested in literature and history if he had time, but he devotes himself entirely to his work. Nowadays, absolutely terrible people are born, who absolutely do not understand anything, and do not even want to learn - this is real image an ignoramus who frightens. The topic is endless and inexhaustible, but we need to move on. To understand what an ignoramus is, one more important aspect needs to be highlighted.

Ignorant and ignorant

People have particular difficulty distinguishing between the two concepts that are placed in the subtitle. In fact, there is no difficulty here. You just need to remember that an ignorant is a person ignorant in the field of science, technology, history and literature, and an ignoramus is also uncultured in the everyday sense. It's even easier to understand the difference with examples. A man who puts his feet on the table at a dinner party is an ignoramus, and a man who does not see the stylistic difference between Turgenev and Gogol is an ignoramus. Now, we think, the question will not arise, what is the difference. We explained everything thoroughly.

What's worse - to be ignorant or ignorant?

There is a long-standing dispute here about two phenomena, one worse than the other. True, let’s assume that being an ignoramus is not as scary as being ignorant, because the latter concept captures, first of all, a person’s everyday bad manners, but, as we know, all norms and rules are relative. Therefore, each person is free to choose his own from two evils.

We hope it is clear what an ignoramus is, and now the reader will not have any difficulties both in using the concept and in explaining it.

Both ignorant and ignorant - this is what they said about people, firstly, unlearned, and secondly, about those who “do not observe politeness in their actions.” In Old Russian, D was preserved in most cases, but before an iotated (softening) vowel it became Zh. Synonyms: high syllable - ignoramus and simple syllable - ignorant did not differ in the language of the 18th and early XIX centuries according to their subject meanings. The “Dictionary of the Russian Academy” (1814, part 3, p. 1291) said that the words ignorant, in common parlance, and ignoramus had two meanings: “1) simpleton, unlearned, unenlightened, illiterate; 2) it also speaks of those who do not observe courtesy in their actions, do not know how to act decently." Pushkin in “Eugene Onegin” (2, VII) used ignorant in the meaning of “inexperienced person”: “He was a dear ignorant at heart.” However cf. in “Dubrovsky”: “The district doctor, fortunately not a complete ignoramus, managed to bleed him.” Today it is customary to distinguish between these words and give each their own meaning. These words were called paronyms. Science does not stand still, and how many people (scientists) there are, so many opinions.

An ignoramus is a rude, ill-mannered person. This is a person who does not know how to behave in society or at the table. Here he is - an ignoramus, without a "D". Who is this ignoramus with a "D"? And this is an uneducated, ignorant person. If you want, call him an ignoramus, or call him a layman. If you know little, you are ignorant. However, as the famous linguist Vinogradov wrote, the difference in the meanings of the words “ignoramus” and “ignoramus” is a product of the post-Pushkin era. Back in the 18th and early 19th centuries, these were just two variants of the same word. “Ignorant” is the so-called high syllable, and “ignoramus” is a common one. If you look into Etymological dictionary Vasmera, we will see that “ignoramus” and “ignoramus” are one and the same thing. Formed from “not” and “to know”, that is, “to know”. Both ignorant and ignorant - this is what they said about people, firstly, unlearned, and secondly, about those who “do not observe politeness in their actions” (this is a quote from the “Dictionary of the Russian Academy”).

Ignorant - does not know Ignorant - impolite

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Examples of the use of the word ignoramus in literature.

I'm one of those uncouth ones ignorant who don't know how to behave decently if they have nothing to do with their hands, and my trusty halberd is the best fun for them.

Like these ones ignoramuses and are guilty of the fact that the Alvs went into their invisible world, to the great detriment of us who remained here.

I boldly approached the dance teacher and, snatching the violin from his hands, smashed it into pieces, swearing that I did not want to learn anything from such a person. ignoramuses.

I have arch supports in my shoes, different things here and there, I won't tell you what Clark calls them, he's a brute, ignorant and generally a barbarian.

For, of course, he had read all the main books on this topic - otherwise he would have had to admit that he was finished. ignorant“Doy,” read Shankara and Eckhart, St.

A few minutes later, the old skinhead appeared on the threshold ignorant with a university code on his hand.

I think it does not require the wisdom of Solomon to understand the danger of a sharp weapon, and he should have ordered it ignorant sheathe your sword or move away.

Deacon Sergius Chelmogorsky taught Gury to read and write from a psalter published at the Moscow Printing Yard by Ivan Fedorov's student Andronik Ignorant.

Sit, sit, ignorant“, in the cabin,” he suddenly became excited, turning to the window, “maybe a mustache will grow!”

Or is he just stupid and ignorant, or, if he studied, then this is dementia.

If the essence of his question had appeared over my head at once, I would have answered in such a way that then he could again complain about the wicked youth, because this abstruse ignorant I could have thought, asking me a question for the entire stop, that it might show me in a completely different light from what I really am.

When his apprenticeship ended, the philosopher stopped giving out money, but his skills remained: one day he was insulted by some ignorant, and he, instead of attacking him with his fists, laughed.

Having overcome a nervous tremor, the daughter of the first minister proudly raised her head and with the inimitable dignity of a true descendant of the Great Fortunatus said: “I always suspected that you ignorant, citizen Intelik.

My mother, this will be a real surprise for any stupid person ignoramuses, and there are a dime a dozen of them on the street.

There was a dragon ignorant in the science of friendliness, so I completely trusted my tiny teacher.

05-07-2015

What is the difference in meaning between the words ‘ignoramus’ and ‘ignoramus’?

Borrowed from Church Slavonic. It comes from the merger of the negative particle “not” and “vezha” - from “to know,” that is, to know. Hence the ignorant - little knowledgeable person, an ignorant person, an uneducated person, and ignorance is the characteristic of such a person.

Until the beginning of the twentieth century, words ignorant and ignorant did not differ. Later, two differences emerged. The word ignorant was gradually relegated to the vernacular.

ignorant and ignorant

The spectrum of its meanings has shifted to such words as ill-mannered, tactless, rude.

The English word for "ignorance" is ignorance- carries additional substantive aspects. Ignorance– this is not only ignorance, lack of knowledge, lack of education, lack of awareness. Ignore– this includes ignoring, not paying attention, skipping, not taking into account. It can be assumed that in the Anglo-American cultural tradition ignorant man- this is not so much an ignorant and uneducated person as a person not interested and indifferent.

Can ignorance be considered uneducated? It's possible that No. Population Soviet Union was highly educated, but due to the closed nature of the country, lacked knowledge modern technologies and achievements social sciences. In this aspect, the population was ignorant, but ignorance was combined with education. If this is so, then ignorance is not the complete opposite of knowledge, it is not its inverted reflection.

On the other side, not all ignorance indicates ignorance. If we do not know facts that are insignificant to us from the life of society, the state, the people around us, and even our own lives (for example, the degree of mineralization of the water we drink), then this does not at all indicate our ignorance. In other words, ignorance is not a complete semblance of ignorance and is not its direct reflection.

Distinctive feature of ignorance– his special relations with the state. It can be created by the state and deliberately preserved. An example of this is the institution of state secrets, documents and literature for official use, and the issuance of information to the population in portions. Such institutions serve as instruments government controlled. It is possible that this is the meaning of the famous Orwellian slogan - "ignorance is strength."

The relationship between ignorance andbusiness. But such relationships exist. This is evidenced by the institution of trade secrets, the mutual rejection of theorists and practitioners, as well as the “educational” paradox of the economist’s profession - many outstanding economists and successful entrepreneurs did not have economic education. Such relationships serve as management tools. It is possible that this is the meaning of the famous slogan - “he who owns the information controls everything.”

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Paronyms: ignoramus - ignoramus

Nevezha`Vasmer's Etymological Dictionary`

ignorant tslav. ignoramus ἀγνώστης, from where Russian. ignorant "dark, uneducated person." From not and *vědi̯ā from vedat. Etymological dictionary of the Russian language. - M.: ProgressM. R. Vasmer1964-1973

IGNORANT`Crossword Dictionary`

1. A person who does not know decency, is rude, discourteous.
2. Uneducated idiot.

Nevezha`Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language by Semenov`

Nevezha'Ozhegov's Explanatory Dictionary'

And, m. and f. A rude, ill-mannered person.

Ignoramus`Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron`

Nevezha`Dictionary of Russian Idiomatics`

Nevezha`Small Academic Dictionary`

-And, m. and f.

A rude, ill-mannered person.

How! with an ignoramus! so that I can reconcile with this rude man! Gogol, The story of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich.

Everyone laughed at him and said that he was an ill-mannered ignoramus and an uncouth blockhead who was unfamiliar with the most simple rules decent behavior. Nosov, Adventures of Dunno and his friends.

2. decomposition outdated

Same as ignoramus.

Whether we start courts or learned societies, We barely have time to look back before the first ignoramuses invade here! I. Krylov, Velmozha and F...

ignorant`Totally. Apart. Hyphenated.`

ignoramus, -i, m. And and.

Together. Apart. Through a hyphen.. B. Z. Bookchina.

ignoramus`Spelling dictionary-reference book`

Together or separately? Spelling dictionary-reference book. - M.: Russian language. B. Z. Bukchina, L. P. Kakalutskaya. 1998.

Nevezha`Great Soviet Encyclopedia`

Andronik Timofeevich (Timofeev), Russian typographer. There are 13 known editions published by N. in 1568-1602. The first of them - “The Psalter” (1568) - was published, as stated in the afterword, “with the care of Nikifor Tarasiev and Nevezha Timofeev” in Moscow. The name Nikifor Tarasiev does not appear later. In 1577 N. published the “Psalter” in Alexandrova Sloboda. Perhaps the undated “Book of Hours” was also printed there. From 1587 until the end of his life, N. worked at the Moscow Printing Yard, where he published “The Lenten Triodion” (1589), “The Colored Triodion” (1591), “Octoichus” (1594), “Apostle” (1597) with the first in the Russian bookstore case signed by the master figure engraving and other publications. The engraved ornamentation of N.'s publications varies in motifs...

Nevezha`History of Words`

Nevezha`Russian word stress`

ignorant, -and; R. pl. ignorant (impolite person)

Russian word stress. - M.: ENAS. M.V. Zarva. 2001.

Nevezha`Russian Encyclopedia`

IGNORANT Andronik Timofeevich (? -c. 1603), printer, follower of Ivan Fedorov. There are 13 known publications published by Nevezha in 1568-1602 in Moscow and Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda, incl. "Psalter" (1568), "Lenten Triodion" (1589), "Apostle" (1597).

See ignorance

V. V. Vinogradov. History of words, 2010