Know-nothing

Translation of "know-nothing" into Russian

Noun

know-nothing

know-nothings pl

Common noun referring to an ignorant or uninformed person.

He's a total know-nothing when it comes to modern technology.

Он полнейший невежда, когда речь идёт о современных технологиях.

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Adjective

know-nothing

Describes someone or something characterised by ignorance.

The proposal was dismissed as a know-nothing response to a complex problem.

Предложение отклонили как невежественный ответ на сложную проблему.

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Proper noun

Know-Nothing

Know-Nothings

Usually capitalised (Know-Nothing): a member of the mid-19th-century American nativist movement.

ноу-натинг

член одноимённой американской нативистской партии 1850-х гг.

Several Know-Nothings were elected to Congress during the peak of the movement.

Во время расцвета движения в Конгресс были избраны несколько ноу-натингов.

Noun

An ignorant or uninformed person.

He's a total know-nothing when it comes to modern technology.

Adjective

Ignorant; showing or characterised by lack of knowledge.

The proposal was dismissed as a know-nothing response to a complex problem.

Proper noun

A member or supporter of the nativist American political movement officially called the American Party (active in the 1850s).

Several Know-Nothings were elected to Congress during the peak of the movement.