Usually means: Ignorant of facts, rejects learning.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word Know-Nothing:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. know-nothing: Merriam-Webster
  2. Know-Nothing, know-nothing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. know-nothing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. know-nothing, know-nothing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Know-Nothing, Know-nothing, know-nothing: Wordnik
  6. Know-Nothing, know-nothing: Wiktionary
  7. know-nothing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. know-nothing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. know-nothing: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Know-Nothing, Know-nothing: Dictionary.com
  11. Know-Nothing, Know-nothing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Know-nothing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. know-nothing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Know-nothing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. KNOW-NOTHING: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  16. know-nothing: FreeDictionary.org
  17. know-nothing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. know-nothing: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. know-nothing: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Know-nothing)

noun:  (historical) A member of a secret antiforeigner political organization in the nineteenth-century United States.
adjective:  Ignorant; characterized by foolish denial of facts or beliefs in that which is not true.
noun:  An ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge.

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