What's the difference between brainiac and ignoramus?

Brainiac


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Andrew Romano, Newsweek How would these eloquent know-it-alls – these brainiacs bent on "speaking truth to stupid" – untangle the knotty threads of information that make actual breaking news so difficult to sort out?
  • (2) And the assumption that Silicon Valley is bursting with autistic brainiacs has been shown in various studies over recent years to be a vastly overstated misconception.
  • (3) Once again he assembled his crew, blockbuster brainiacs who are constantly in high demand.
  • (4) In the past 40 years,” Silberman writes, “some members of this tribe have migrated from the margins of society to the mainstream … The kids formerly ridiculed as nerds and brainiacs have become the architects of our future.” “Before we start, can I ask you a couple of questions?” Silberman says when I Skype him at his home in San Francisco.
  • (5) Nominees: Jeremy Clarkson - Top Gear, BBC for BBC2 Bruce Parry - Tribe, BBC Wales for BBC2 Digital Channel Programme Award Brainiac 3, Granada for Sky One "Strangely addictive, an infectious show that in its third series shows more imagination and creativity than ever."
  • (6) We have characterized the function of a new neurogenic locus, brainiac (brn), during oogenesis.

Ignoramus


Definition:

  • (n.) We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, "No bill," "No true bill," or "Not found," though in some jurisdictions "Ignored" is still used.
  • (n.) A stupid, ignorant person; a vain pretender to knowledge; a dunce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
  • (2) Bill Bishop, the publisher of the influential Sinocism newsletter , said he believed Beijing was revelling in a once-inconceivable opportunity to contrast its “adult leadership” with the “deranged, ignoramus” one that had taken up residence in the White House: “It is an absolute gift from Trump, both from a short-term PR perspective, but also from a longer-term perspective.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Xi meets a children’s choir in Kehrsatz, Switzerland during his visit to the 2017 Davos forum.
  • (3) Stupid ignoramus slid out of his mouth like music."
  • (4) In general, he is scathing of oligarchs as a class - describing them as a bunch of uncultured ignoramuses.
  • (5) They were just ludicrous ignoramuses compared to me, and I became a Jesus-like figure in my own head.