Ill-informed rating managed to convey negative response (8)
I believe the answer is:
ignorant
'ill-informed' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives.
Perhaps they are linked in a way I don't understand?
'rating managed to convey negative response' is the wordplay.
'managed' indicates an anagram.
'to convey' means one lot of letters goes inside another (convey can mean to carry).
'negative response' becomes 'no' (I've seen this in other clues).
'rating' with letters rearranged gives 'igrant'.
'igrant' placed around 'no' is 'IGNORANT'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ignorant that I've seen before include "Uneducated" , "Ill-mannered" , "Lacking in or good manners" , "blissful?" , "left in the dark" .)