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KNOW NOTHING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ignorant person
Synonyms:
ignoramus; know nothing; uneducated person
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("know nothing" is a kind of...):
unskilled person (a person who lacks technical training)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "know nothing"):
aliterate; aliterate person (a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources)
illiterate; illiterate person; nonreader (a person unable to read)
Context examples:
"Yet if I know nothing about you or your history, I cannot help you," he said.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
By many—by some of whom you know nothing, by others with whom you are most intimate, Mrs. Jennings, Mrs. Palmer, and the Middletons.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Beyond this we know nothing whatever of him.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
My agreement was that James was to be brought up as their nephew, and that he should know nothing of his unhappy parents.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But does Lydia know nothing of this? can she be ignorant of what you and Jane seem so well to understand?
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Then I know nothing of Mr. Elton.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The Lord Loring hath given his proofs; but we know nothing of his squires, save that one of them hath a railing tongue.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Her lines and fittings—though I know nothing about such things—speak for themselves.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But I know nothing about hardware.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Well, said Jo, laughing, if my people are 'philosophical and metaphysical', it isn't my fault, for I know nothing about such things, except what I hear father say, sometimes.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
