The Collaborative Dictionary

Wrongheaded \Wrong"head`ed\, a. Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse. -- Wrong"head`ed*ly, adv. -- Wrong"head`ed*ness, n. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

Word Net

wrongheaded adj : obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion; "a wrongheaded policy"

Moby Thesaurus

Boeotian, asinine, balky, beef-brained, beef-witted, blockish, bovine, bullheaded, cantankerous, chumpish, cloddish, contrary, cowish, crass, cross-grained, dense, difficult, doltish, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, froward, gross, headstrong, ineducable, irascible, klutzy, lumpish, mulish, oafish, opaque, ornery, perverse, pigheaded, restive, self-willed, sottish, stiff-necked, stubborn, stuffy, stupid, sulky, sullen, thick, unteachable, wayward

English

Etymology

From wrong + headed

Alternative spellings

• wrong-headed

Adjective

1. having an obstinately perverse opinion or judgement

Derived terms

• wrongheadedly
• wrongheadedness

Ignorance is the condition of being uninformed or uneducated, lacking knowledge or information. It may also refer to:

• Avijja, ignorance as a concept in Buddhism
• Ignorance (album), a Sacred Reich album
• Ignorance (band), a thrash-funk metal band
• Ignorance (novel), a Czech novel
• Pluralistic ignorance, a concept in social psychology
• Rational ignorance, a concept in epistemology
• Vincible ignorance, a moral or doctrinal matter in Catholic ethics that could have been removed by diligence reasonable to the circumstancess