stupid vs ignorant
Definitions
noun
- a person who is not very bright
adjective
- in a state of mental numbness especially as resulting from shock
- lacking or marked by lack of intellectual acuity
- lacking intelligence
Examples
Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town.
This list of talking points that Rush told you to spew is old and cliched and so stupid it is an embarassment to have to address this moronity AGAIN.
And I'm not too stupid to realise this is all transference.
Definitions
adjective
- uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field
- unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge
- uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
Examples
What I've generally de-duced is that men in their twenties are ignorant of the relevance of most feminist issues and think feminists are in varying degrees: full of hot air, lesbians, killjoys.
Here's John Adams on Thomas Paine's famous 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense": "What a poor, ignorant, malicious, short-sighted, crapulous mass.
There were some stunningly ignorant comments on the wero, asking why important visitors to New Zealand were greeted by "a Maori New Zealander jumping around half naked".
