Roget's Thesaurus

#493. Ignoramus

Nouns

ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar. [insulting terms for ignorant person:] (imbecility) 499 (folly) 501 moron, imbecile, idiot; fool, jerk, nincompoop, asshole [Vulg.]. [person with superficial knowledge] dilettante, sciolist, smatterer, dabbler, half scholar; charlatan; wiseacre. greenhorn, amateur etc. (dupe) 547; novice, tyro etc. (learner) 541; numskull. lubber etc. (bungler) 701; fool etc. 501; pedant etc. 492.

Adjectives

bookless, shallow; ignorant etc. 491.

Phrases

a wit with dunces and a dunce with wits [Pope].