ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

[Imperfect knowledge] smattering, sciolism † , glimmering, dilettantism; bewilderment
&c (uncertainty) 475; incapacity.
[Affectation of knowledge] pedantry; charlatanry, charlatism † ; Philister † , Philistine.
V. be ignorant &c adj.; not know &c 490; know not, know not what, know nothing of;
have no idea, have no notion, have no conception; not have the remotest idea; not know
chalk from cheese.
ignore, be blind to; keep in ignorance &c (conceal) 528.
see through a glass darkly; have a film over the eyes, have a glimmering &c n.;
wonder whether; not know what to make of &c (unintelligibility) 519; not pretend to take
upon, not take upon one self to say.
Adj. ignorant; nescient; unknowing, unaware, unacquainted, unapprised, unapprized † ,
unwitting, unweeting † , unconscious; witless, weetless † ; a stranger to; unconversant † .
uninformed, uncultivated, unversed, uninstructed, untaught, uninitiated, untutored,
unschooled, misguided, unenlightened; Philistine; behind the age.
shallow, superficial, green, rude, empty, half-learned, illiterate; unread, uninformed,
uneducated, unlearned, unlettered, unbookish; empty-headed, dizzy, wooly-headed;
pedantic; in the dark; benighted, belated; blinded, blindfolded; hoodwinked;
misinformed; au bout de son latin, at the end of his tether, at fault; at sea &c (uncertain)
475; caught tripping.
unknown, unapprehended, unexplained, unascertained, uninvestigated † , unexplored,
unheard of, not perceived; concealed &c 528; novel.
Adv. ignorantly &c adj.; unawares; for anything, for aught one knows; not that one
knows.
Int. God knows, Heaven knows, the Lord knows, who knows, nobody knows.
Phr. ignorance never settles a question [Disraeli]; quantum animis erroris inest! [Lat.]
[Ovid]; small Latin and less Greek [B.
Jonson]; that unlettered small-knowing soul [Love's Labor's Lost]; there is no
darkness but ignorance [Twelfth Night].
492. Scholar -- N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman † , professor, graduate,
wrangler; academician, academist † ; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman;
philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister † ; linguist; glossolinguist,
philologist; philologer † ; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur [Fr.],
literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti [It]; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah,
munshi † , Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue † ; Mezzofanti † , admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.
bookworm, helluo librorum [Lat.]; bibliophile, bibliomaniac † ; bluestocking, bas-bleu
[Fr.]; bigwig, learned Theban, don; Artium Baccalaureus [Lat.], Artium Magister [Lat.].
learned man, literary man; homo multarum literarum [Lat.]; man of learning, man of
letters, man of education, man of genius.
antiquarian, antiquary; archaeologist.
sage &c (wise man) 500.
pedant, doctrinaire; pedagogue, Dr.
Pangloss; pantologist † , criminologist.
schoolboy &c (learner) 541.
Adj. learned &c 490; brought up at the feet of Gamaliel.