ignorants
Those lacking knowledge
Ignorants is a nonstandard plural of ignorant used as a noun, treating ignorant people as a class: Those ignorants don't know what they're talking about.
The standard form would be "ignorant people" or "the ignorant." This usage appears in casual speech and dialectal English, often carrying contempt.
Lacking acquired knowledge
- illiterateCannot read or write
- unschooledLacking formal instruction
- uninstructedNot given directions
- untaughtNever given lessons
uneducated · unlettered · unread · untrained · unsophisticated · provincial · backward · benighted
Lacking necessary knowledge
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- cluelessLacking any understanding
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
- unknowingLacking awareness or information
blind · heedless · unmindful · incognizant · unwitting · unfamiliar · unacquainted · stranger
Those who reject claims
- dismissiveShowing contemptuous disregard
- closed-mindedUnreceptive to new ideas
- stubbornRefusing to change course
- obstinateFirmly refusing to yield
prejudiced · bigoted · narrow-minded · intolerant · dogmatic · anti-intellectual · flat-earthers · rejecting
unlearned
Lacking acquired knowledge
- illiterateCannot read or write
- unschooledLacking formal instruction
- uninstructedNot given directions
untaught · uneducated · unlettered · unread · untrained · unsophisticated · provincial · backward · benighted · unknowing
uninformed
Lacking necessary knowledge
- obliviousLacking any awareness
- cluelessLacking any understanding
- unconsciousNot awake or aware
unknowing · blind · heedless · unmindful · incognizant · unwitting · unfamiliar · unacquainted · stranger · outsider
deniers
Those who reject claims
- dismissiveShowing contemptuous disregard
- closed-mindedUnreceptive to new ideas
- stubbornRefusing to change course
obstinate · prejudiced · bigoted · narrow-minded · intolerant · dogmatic · anti-intellectual · flat-earthers · rejecting · refusing
ignorantsscholars
Experts in a field
intellectuals · academics · experts · savants · sages
ignorantsthinkers
People who reason deeply
inquirers · autodidacts · philosophers · researchers · students
ignorantssophisticates
Worldly, cultured individuals
cosmopolitans · connoisseurs · initiates · insiders · men of letters
- ignorance is blissNot knowing protects happiness
- blissful ignorance
- willful ignorancePurposely remaining uninformed
- willfully ignorant
- feign ignoranceFake lack of knowledge
- feigned ignorancePretending not to know