ignorant
German, adjective
ignorant is spelled I-G-N-O-R-A-N-T (8 letters) and appears 1.3 times per million words in written German, the 31,999th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Ignorant is a German adjective meaning “willfully ignorant, arrogantly disinterested in knowledge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Ignorant is a different word: “ignorant person, ignoramus”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “unwissend”.
What does ignorant mean in English?
adjective
- 1
willfully ignorant, arrogantly disinterested in knowledge
noun
- 1
masculineignorant person, ignoramus
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Person, die sich nicht darum bemüht, Wahrheit zu erkennen
adjective: 1. unwissend
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of ignorant
- ignoranter masculine nominative singular
- am ignorantesten superlative
- ignorante feminine nominative singular
- ignorantes neuter nominative singular
- ignoranten genitive masculine singular
- ignorantem dative masculine singular
- der ignorante definite includes-article masculine
- die ignorante definite feminine includes-article
- das ignorante definite includes-article neuter
- die ignoranten definite includes-article nominative
- des ignoranten definite genitive includes-article
- der ignoranten definite feminine genitive
- dem ignoranten dative definite includes-article
- Ignorantin feminine
- Ignoranten nominative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to ignorant
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is ignorant in German?
ignorant appears 1.3 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).