ADJECTIVE
- holding that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters or ultimate causes is impossible
-
uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication
an ignorant man
an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues
exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions
nescient of contemporary literature
How To Use nescient In A Sentence
- Is the nescient administration backpedaling under the pressure of big pharma and the deny care at will insurance money? Excuse me, but is that change backpedaling?
- Radix mandragora ebibitae, Annuli ex ungulis Asini, Stercus amatae sub cervical positum, illa nesciente, &c., quum odorem foeditatis sentit, amor solvitur. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Just when you thought the quality of British sports journalism could not sink any lower, out pops The Observer's Eddie Butler with a wonderfully nescient piece of writing. Archive 2005-12-01
- I eagerly await the daily deployment of “nescient.” Matthew Yglesias » Chilly!
- The cluelessness in his expression's so nescient that it's something close to profound.
- The columns were of different substances; some of handsome marble, others of rough stone meanly plastered over, with dissimilar capitals, vulgarly cut shafts of various sizes; here with a pediment, there without, now turned upside down, then joined together by halves in the centre, and almost invariably nescient of intercolumnar rule. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
- This means I can get whipped up into a state of ill-informed indignation, because if I'm going to get indignant it may as well be in quite a pompous and nescient fashion.
- Massive post-war unemployment was fast becoming a crippling political problem for the British government, as was the realisation that perhaps the greatest threat to international stability was the narrow minded, nescient Versailles Peace Treaty effected in 1919. Eraser Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
- Because, in my opinion, nescient arm-chair security analysts with an axe to grind sure as hell shouldn't be able to declassify thousands of government documents and unfetter them into cyberspace. Michael Hughes: WikiStan: Do We Want Julian Assange on That Wall?
- nescient of contemporary literature