What does know nothing mean?

know nothing means "an ignorant person".

What is another word for know nothing?

Close synonyms include ignoramus, uneducated person. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is know nothing a common word?

know nothing is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Know nothing — meaning and 2 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
an ignorant person
Synonymsignoramus uneducated person
Broaderunskilled person
Narroweraliterate illiterate

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