The opposite of "reading up on" would be to "avoid learning about" or to "be ignorant of." While it is important to gain knowledge and continually educate oneself about a variety of topics, there are times when it may be prudent to steer clear of certain information. This could be because the subject matter is too sensitive or painful, or it may be simply because of a lack of interest. Choosing not to read up on a particular topic does not necessarily make someone less intelligent or informed; rather, it is a personal choice and must be balanced against the benefits of expanding one's knowledge base.

What are the antonyms for Reading up on?

• v.

  • research
  • ignore
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  • neglect
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Famous quotes with Reading up on

• In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

  Dwayne Hickman
• To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.

  Robert B. Laughlin
• Marylin Marsh, who had about it with Spain, declared to him [the old Spanish man] [...] But it redounds to your national credit, the then Missus Turner went on in effect - she'd been reading up on reciprocal atrocities in the Guerra Civil - that the sunny Spanish could never be guilty of an Auschwitz, for example. In the first place, your ovens would have died, like our kitchen stove, instead of your Jews, whom you'd got rid of anyhow in the sunny Fifteenth century, no? And in the second place the whole idea of extermination camps would've been too impersonal for your exquisite Moorish tastes. Much more agradable to push folks off a cliff one at a time into a gorgeous Mediterranean sunset, as you did near Malaga - three hundred, was it, or three thousand? Or to rape and then kill a convent-full of nuns in the manner of the saint of their choice - was that Barcelona or Valencia? ( p. 37 )

  John Barth

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