mindmap root((无知)) ignorant may imply a general condition: an ~ fool; or it may apply to lack of knowledge or awareness of a particular thing: he's ~ of nuclear physics. illiterate applies to either an absolute or a relative inability to read and write: much of that country's population is still ~. unlettered implies ignorance of the knowledge gained by being educated or by reading: a literary reference that is meaningless to the ~. untutored may imply lack of schooling in the arts and ways of civilization: strange megalithic monuments left by an ~ people. unlearned suggests ignorance of advanced or scholarly subjects: a poet who speaks to the ~.