as in ignorant
not informed about or aware of something
the mayor is clearly uninformed when it comes to the state of the city's schools
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Recent Examples of uninformed
This can lead to uninformed or risky governance proposals around treatment protocols or data use.
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Chrissa McFarlane, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Cutting away advisory panels hurts everyone and leaves the U.S. government uninformed when making critical decisions that affect millions of lives, alongside a public left in the dark about what advice agencies do receive.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2025
For now, critics say the public remains uninformed—and potentially unprotected.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Unfortunately, such fleshing out always brings charges of political manipulation from the uninformed or paranoid.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
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Chrissa McFarlane, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
Cutting away advisory panels hurts everyone and leaves the U.S. government uninformed when making critical decisions that affect millions of lives, alongside a public left in the dark about what advice agencies do receive.
—Dan Vergano, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2025
For now, critics say the public remains uninformed—and potentially unprotected.
—Nicholas Creel, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Apr. 2025
Unfortunately, such fleshing out always brings charges of political manipulation from the uninformed or paranoid.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for uninformed
Adjective
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Less prescient was her claim—ignorant in exactly the way of so many white feminists throughout history—that racial oppression would be solved once gender was abolished.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
11 June 2025
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The provision prohibiting states from regulating AI for the next 10 years is unconscionably ignorant and dangerous.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
8 June 2025
Adjective
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The good news about season 3 taking us back in time is that many of those characters are likely to return, unaware of the grisly fates awaiting them.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
4 June 2025
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Many of these students and their families were unaware of their full mathematical potential.—
Julia Brodsky,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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But here’s the other risk: Chasers, especially novices, often stop abruptly on the side - or even middle - of a 70-mph highway, open their car doors to get out and cluelessly snap photos, oblivious to other chasers who may be barreling down behind them.—
Jim Clash,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
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There always seemed to be a little girl oblivious to everything but the cartoons.—
Mark Kriegel
June 4,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2025
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“Uninformed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/uninformed. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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