Related Words:
- slang
collapse - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"
- informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions; often vituperative or vulgar; "their speech was full of slang expressions"
- abuse with coarse language
- use slang or vulgar language related words >
- Aesopian language,
- Babel,
- Greek,
- argot,
- babble,
- barbarism,
- bluff,
- bluster,
- bluster and bluff,
- bounce,
- brag,
- bully,
- cant,
- cipher,
- code,
- colloquialism,
- common speech,
- corruption,
- cryptogram,
- double Dutch,
- garble,
- gasconade,
- gibberish,
- gift of tongues,
- glossolalia,
- gobbledygook,
- hector,
- illiterate speech,
- impropriety,
- intimidate,
- jargon,
- jargonal,
- jargonish,
- jumble,
- lingo,
- localism,
- mumbo jumbo,
- noise,
- out-herod Herod,
- patois,
- patter,
- phraseology,
- rage,
- rant,
- rave,
- roister,
- rollick,
- scatological,
- scatology,
- scramble,
- secret language,
- slangy,
- splutter,
- sputter,
- storm,
- substandard language,
- swagger,
- swashbuckle,
- taboo,
- taboo language,
- taboo word,
- vapor,
- vernacular,
- vocabulary,
- vulgar language,
- vulgar tongue,
- vulgarism,
- vulgate
- dilettante
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- showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting" related words >
- Sunday painter,
- abecedarian,
- admirer,
- aesthete,
- aficionado,
- amateur,
- arbiter,
- arbiter elegantiarum,
- arbiter of taste,
- authority,
- bon vivant,
- booster,
- buff,
- cognoscente,
- collector,
- connaisseur,
- connoisseur,
- coquet,
- critic,
- criticaster,
- dabbler,
- dabbling,
- dabster,
- dallier,
- devotee,
- dilettantish,
- dunce,
- epicure,
- epicurean,
- expert,
- fan,
- fancier,
- flirt,
- follower,
- fool,
- freak,
- fribble,
- good judge,
- gourmand,
- gourmet,
- grammaticaster,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- groupie,
- half scholar,
- idolater,
- idolizer,
- ignoramus,
- illiterate,
- illiterati,
- jackleg,
- judge,
- know-nothing,
- lowbrow,
- maven,
- middlebrow,
- no scholar,
- nonprofessional,
- nut,
- philologaster,
- philosophaster,
- piddler,
- potterer,
- puddinghead,
- pundit,
- putterer,
- refined palate,
- rooter,
- savant,
- scholar,
- sciolist,
- smatterer,
- specialist,
- technical expert,
- technician,
- tenderfoot,
- trifler,
- tyro,
- unaccomplished,
- unfinished,
- ungifted,
- unintelligentsia,
- unskilled,
- virtuoso,
- votary,
- worshiper
- awkward,
- benighted,
- blank,
- blankminded,
- brainless,
- callow,
- calm,
- dizzy,
- dumb,
- empty,
- empty-minded,
- empty-pated,
- empty-skulled,
- fatuous,
- featherbrained,
- featherheaded,
- flighty,
- fluttery,
- frivolous,
- gaga,
- gauche,
- giddy,
- giddy-brained,
- giddy-headed,
- giddy-pated,
- giddy-witted,
- green,
- groping,
- harebrain,
- harebrained,
- hollow,
- ignorant,
- illiterate,
- inane,
- incogitant,
- inexperienced,
- innocent,
- jejune,
- know-nothing,
- naive,
- nescient,
- nirvanic,
- oblivious,
- passive,
- quietistic,
- rattlebrained,
- rattleheaded,
- rattlepated,
- raw,
- relaxed,
- rude,
- scatterbrained,
- scramblebrained,
- shatterbrained,
- silly,
- simple,
- skittish,
- strange to,
- tentative,
- thoughtfree,
- thoughtless,
- tranquil,
- unacquainted,
- unapprized,
- uncomprehending,
- unconversant,
- uneducated,
- unenlightened,
- unfamiliar,
- unideaed,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- uninstructed,
- unintellectual,
- unintelligent,
- unknowing,
- unlettered,
- unoccupied,
- unposted,
- unreasoning,
- unripe,
- unschooled,
- unsure,
- untaught,
- unthinking,
- unversed,
- vacant,
- vacuous,
- vapid,
- witless
- antiblack,
- awkward,
- be green,
- be ignorant,
- benighted,
- biased,
- blankminded,
- callow,
- chauvinistic,
- colored,
- dabbler,
- dilettante,
- dimwit,
- doctrinaire,
- dogmatic,
- dolt,
- dope,
- dumb,
- dummy,
- dunce,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- fool,
- gauche,
- green,
- greenhorn,
- greeny,
- groping,
- headed,
- idiot,
- ignoramus,
- ignorant,
- illiterate,
- illiterati,
- inane,
- inexperienced,
- influenced,
- innocent,
- interested,
- jaundiced,
- know from nothing,
- lackwit,
- lowbrow,
- middlebrow,
- naive,
- nescient,
- no scholar,
- nonobjective,
- not know beans,
- one-sided,
- opinionated,
- partial,
- partisan,
- pinhead,
- prejudiced,
- prepossessed,
- puddinghead,
- racist,
- raw,
- rude,
- sexist,
- simple,
- strange to,
- superpatriotic,
- swayed,
- tenderfoot,
- tentative,
- twisted,
- ultranationalist,
- unacquainted,
- unapprized,
- uncomprehending,
- unconversant,
- undetached,
- undispassionate,
- uneducated,
- unenlightened,
- unfamiliar,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- uninstructed,
- unintelligent,
- unintelligentsia,
- unknowing,
- unlettered,
- unposted,
- unripe,
- unsure,
- untaught,
- untutored,
- unversed,
- vacuous,
- wallow in ignorance,
- warped,
- xenophobic
- abecedarian,
- alphabetarian,
- apprentice,
- arriviste,
- articled clerk,
- babe,
- baby,
- beginner,
- boob,
- boot,
- catechumen,
- chump,
- cinch,
- credulous person,
- cull,
- dabbler,
- deb,
- debutant,
- dilettante,
- dull tool,
- dunce,
- dupe,
- easy mark,
- easy pickings,
- emigrant,
- entrant,
- fall guy,
- fish,
- fledgling,
- fool,
- freshman,
- gate-crasher,
- gobe-mouches,
- greener,
- greeny,
- gudgeon,
- gull,
- ignoramus,
- illiterate,
- illiterati,
- immigrant,
- incapable,
- incompetent,
- inductee,
- infant,
- initiate,
- innocent,
- intruder,
- know-nothing,
- leadpipe cinch,
- learner,
- lowbrow,
- mediocrity,
- middlebrow,
- monkey,
- neophyte,
- nestling,
- new arrival,
- new boy,
- newcomer,
- no conjuror,
- no scholar,
- novice,
- novitiate,
- novus homo,
- parvenu,
- patsy,
- pigeon,
- plaything,
- postulant,
- prize sap,
- probationer,
- probationist,
- puddinghead,
- pushover,
- raw recruit,
- recruit,
- rookie,
- sap,
- saphead,
- schlemiel,
- settler,
- sitting duck,
- squatter,
- stooge,
- stowaway,
- sucker,
- tenderfoot,
- toy,
- trainee,
- trusting soul,
- tyro,
- unintelligentsia,
- upstart,
- victim
- ignorant
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- uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate"
- uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group incapable of understanding complex issues"; "exhibiting contempt for his unlettered companions"
- unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge; "he was completely ignorant of the circumstances"; "an unknowledgeable assistant"; "his rudeness was unwitting" related words >
- a novice at,
- a stranger to,
- awkward,
- benighted,
- blankminded,
- boorish,
- brainless,
- callow,
- crude,
- disaccustomed,
- discourteous,
- dumb,
- empty,
- empty-headed,
- foolish,
- fresh,
- gauche,
- green,
- green as grass,
- groping,
- gross,
- headless,
- ill-mannered,
- illiterate,
- immature,
- impolite,
- in the dark,
- inane,
- incognizant,
- inept,
- inexperienced,
- ingenuous,
- innocent,
- insensate,
- irrational,
- know-nothing,
- lackbrained,
- lean-minded,
- lean-witted,
- lowbrow,
- mindless,
- naive,
- nescient,
- new to,
- not bright,
- oblivious,
- of little brain,
- pea-brained,
- pin-brained,
- raw,
- reasonless,
- rude,
- rusty,
- senseless,
- simple,
- slackminded,
- slackwitted,
- strange to,
- tentative,
- unaccustomed,
- unaccustomed to,
- unacquainted,
- unacquainted with,
- unapprized,
- unaware,
- uncivil,
- uncomprehending,
- unconscious,
- unconversant,
- unconversant with,
- uncouth,
- uncultured,
- undeveloped,
- uneducated,
- unenlightened,
- unexperienced,
- unfamiliar,
- unfamiliar with,
- unfledged,
- ungifted,
- unhabituated,
- unhardened,
- unilluminated,
- uninformed,
- uninitiated,
- uninitiated in,
- uninstructed,
- unintellectual,
- unintelligent,
- uninured,
- unknowing,
- unlearned,
- unlettered,
- unmatured,
- unposted,
- unpracticed,
- unpracticed in,
- unprogressive,
- unread,
- unreasoning,
- unripe,
- unschooled,
- unseasoned,
- unskilled in,
- unsophisticated,
- unsure,
- untalented,
- untaught,
- unthinking,
- untrained,
- untried,
- untutored,
- unused,
- unused to,
- unversed,
- unversed in,
- unwise,
- unwitting,
- unwonted,
- vacuous,
- weaned,
- witless
- vernacular
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- the everyday speech of the people (as distinguished from literary language) related words >
- Babbittish,
- Philistine,
- aboriginal,
- accustomed,
- ancient language,
- argot,
- austerity,
- autochthonous,
- average,
- baldness,
- bareness,
- bourgeois,
- campy,
- candor,
- cant,
- classical language,
- colloquial,
- colloquial speech,
- colloquial usage,
- colloquialism,
- common,
- common speech,
- commonplace,
- confined,
- conventional,
- conversational,
- conversationalism,
- current,
- customary,
- dead language,
- directness,
- easy,
- endemic,
- everyday,
- familiar,
- frankness,
- general,
- geographically limited,
- gibberish,
- gobbledygook,
- habitual,
- high-camp,
- homebred,
- homegrown,
- homely,
- homespun,
- household,
- household words,
- idiom,
- illiterate speech,
- indigenous,
- informal,
- informal English,
- informal language,
- informal speech,
- insular,
- jargon,
- kitschy,
- language,
- leanness,
- limited,
- lingo,
- living language,
- local,
- localized,
- low-camp,
- matter-of-factness,
- mother tongue,
- mumbo jumbo,
- natal,
- native,
- native language,
- native speech,
- native tongue,
- native-born,
- naturalness,
- nonstandard,
- normative,
- of a place,
- openness,
- ordinary,
- original,
- parent language,
- parochial,
- patois,
- patter,
- phraseology,
- plain,
- plain English,
- plain speaking,
- plain speech,
- plain style,
- plain words,
- plainness,
- plebeian,
- pop,
- popular,
- predominating,
- prescriptive,
- prevailing,
- primitive,
- prosaicness,
- prosiness,
- provincial,
- public,
- regional,
- regular,
- regulation,
- restrainedness,
- rustic style,
- scatology,
- severity,
- simple,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- slang,
- soberness,
- spareness,
- speech,
- spoken,
- spoken language,
- standard,
- starkness,
- stock,
- straightforward,
- straightforwardness,
- substandard,
- substandard language,
- taboo language,
- talk,
- topical,
- unadorned style,
- unadornedness,
- unaffectedness,
- uneducated,
- unimaginativeness,
- universal,
- unliterary,
- unpoeticalness,
- unstudied,
- usual,
- vernacularism,
- vocabulary,
- vulgar,
- vulgar language,
- vulgar tongue,
- vulgate,
- wonted
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