knowledgeless

English

Etymology

knowledge +‎ -less

Adjective

knowledgeless (not comparable)

1. Devoid of knowledge; ignorant.
   • 1835, Richard Carlile, Church Reform‎^[1], London: for the author, page 16:

     The dissent of knowledge and the dissent of ignorance, though disunited, are becoming too powerful for your knowledgeless Church; and you, at last, have consented to speak of its necessary reform!

   • 1962, Aldous Huxley, chapter 15, in Island‎^[2], New York: Bantam, published 1963, page 272:

     Ultimately and essentially there was only a luminous bliss, only a knowledgeless understanding, only union with unity in a limitless, undifferentiated awareness.

Derived terms

• knowledgelessness