What's a word that means "not knowing everything"? This would serve as a complementary antonym of omniscient, which means having infinite knowledge, or simply "all-knowing".
Thesaurus.com shows these possible words:
- stupid (opposite of being clever, which ≠ being omniscient)
- unknowing (opposite of being knowing, which ≠ being omniscient)
- fallible (opposite of being infallible, which means "not able to make mistakes", which ≠ being omniscient, since I can know everything and still make mistakes)
- erring (which means "capable of making mistakes", which ≠ being omniscient, since I can know everything and still make mistakes)
- imperfect (opposite of being perfect, which is a superset of being omniscient... how could I be perfect if I'm both omniscient and fallible?)
- faulty (which means "to have fault(s) / defect(s)", is the opposite of "to have no fault(s) / defect(s)", which means being perfect, which ≠ being omniscient)
- ignorant (which means "having inadequate knowledge", is the opposite of "having adequate knowledge", which ≠ having infinite knowledge)
- uneducated (opposite of being educated, which ≠ being omniscient)
- unaware (opposite of being aware, which ≠ being omniscient)
- uninformed (opposite of being informed, which ≠ being omniscient)
Yet, none of them are true antonyms for omniscient. Is there an alternative?