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- adjective Lacking
knowledge ,ignorant naive or foolish.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge
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Examples
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Those can be useful, particularly if your website is highly technical, but an unfriendly moderator will probably cause more damage than an unknowledgeable one will.
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However, from a practical user standpoint (read: unknowledgeable unwashed masses, who are currently the vast majority of users), it's questionable.
Google Wave Video Demo Makes A Little More Sense Of Wave | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Equally unfortunate are the endless streams of unknowledgeable consumers that seem to want to compensate for their lack of knowlege by buying guns from egomaniacs, just so they can say they bought it from this guy who knows everything.
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Do they provide considerable access to key creative talent or to some seemingly unknowledgeable rep?
Creative Agency Selection in 2009: Distinguishing the Indistinguishable « Art & Business of Motion 2009
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Brown qualified the population as relatively unknowledgeable about the potential health hazards, and as having no health insurance for pregnant women or young children who may be impacted by the effects of mercury.
Marcia G. Yerman: Chandra Brown: Fighting Pollution in Southern Georgia Marcia G. Yerman 2011
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Equally unfortunate are the endless streams of unknowledgeable consumers that seem to want to compensate for their lack of knowlege by buying guns from egomaniacs, just so they can say they bought it from this guy who knows everything.
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They're old-fashioned and blah blah blah, which is totally unknowledgeable, right?
Mike Ragogna: Better Late Than Never: A Conversation With Buffy Sainte-Marie Mike Ragogna 2011
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We do not consider ourselves naive or unknowledgeable, and appreciate that some domains are being used for other things than websites: email for example, and again we appreciate that you may simply not want to sell your domain.
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They're old-fashioned and blah blah blah, which is totally unknowledgeable, right?
Mike Ragogna: Better Late Than Never: A Conversation With Buffy Sainte-Marie Mike Ragogna 2011
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In other words, unknowledgeable though many of us are, American politics is about what matters -- philosophical questions of power and liberty that most profoundly and generally affect our lives.
Robin Koerner: To Be or Not to Be: American Freedom, Exceptionalism and Identity Robin Koerner 2011
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