nescient
IPA: nˈiʃiʌnt
noun
- An ignorant person.
- One who holds that only material phenomena can be known and knowledge of spiritual matters (the unmeasurable) or ultimate causes is impossible.
adjective
- Ignorant, unlearned.
- Unbelieving.
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Examples of "nescient" in Sentences
- I eagerly await the daily deployment of “nescient.”
- Is the nescient administration backpedaling under the pressure of big pharma and the deny care at will insurance money?
- I believe this is in retaliation for all the nescient liturgical nonsense that I've been trying to ingest the past few days.
- Just when you thought the quality of British sports journalism could not sink any lower, out pops The Observer's Eddie Butler with a wonderfully nescient piece of writing.
- Because, in my opinion, nescient arm-chair security analysts with an axe to grind sure as hell shouldn't be able to declassify thousands of government documents and unfetter them into cyberspace.
- Massive post-war unemployment was fast becoming a crippling political problem for the British government, as was the realisation that perhaps the greatest threat to international stability was the narrow minded, nescient Versailles Peace Treaty effected in 1919.
- The columns were of different substances; some of handsome marble, others of rough stone meanly plastered over, with dissimilar capitals, vulgarly cut shafts of various sizes; here with a pediment, there without, now turned upside down, then joined together by halves in the centre, and almost invariably nescient of intercolumnar rule.
- If you get a good script, a decently good director who has deflated his ego, a committed studio and crew willing to collaborate and work in tangent, and even challenge gifted directors choices, everyone working together could possibly put together something that will make little boys and large googly eyed big boys come back for more, by giving them something that has a nescient chance of flowering into a cash cow franchise.
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