agnorant

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English

Etymology

Blend of ignorant +‎ arrogant

Pronunciation

Adjective

agnorant (comparative more agnorant, superlative most agnorant)

  1. Simultaneously ignorant and arrogant.
    • 2015 November 13, Papa Seyni Faye, The Reign of Svengali, Books on Demand Editions, →ISBN, page 256:
      The doings of some persons are all kinds of agnorant, mixed with a vacuous oral character that can make you feel a headlock.
    • 2017 November 20, Doug Sheehy, Agnorance - Memoirs, Musings and Madness by Doug, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 58:
      So why am I not YouTube famous now? The main reason was I never really tried. Ok, I know that sounds really agnorant, however, by the time we were wrapping up the Video Announcements, YouTube was really just becoming a much stronger medium.
    • 2018 September 4, Jerry Davich, “Are you infected by the social disease of 'agnorance'?”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on June 21, 2021:
      “What kind of person claims to be agnorant you might ask,” Sheehy wrote in his book. “One who is bold enough to create his own pseudonym and yet still arrogant enough to put his name on the title of the book.”
    • 2019 November 30, Craig Hallam, Down Days, Inspired Quill, →ISBN:
      And if I say I don't want to be around someone, it's because I know they're an idiot and I refuse to put myself in that situation. Why should I? Because after they've said their racist/bigoted/stupid thing, and I've shot them down (or bit my tongue), they go on with their lives unchanged, because they're arrogant and ignorant (I'm going to coin the phrase “agnorant” henceforth).

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

agnōrant

  1. third-person plural pluperfect active indicative of agnōscō