Uk English Meaning of ingenuous

naive

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Definitions and Meaning of ingenuous in English

Wordnet

ingenuous (a)

characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious

Wordnet

ingenuous (s)

lacking in sophistication or worldliness

Webster

ingenuous (a.)

Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.

Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.

Ingenious.

FAQs About the word ingenuous

naive

characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious, lacking in sophistication or worldlinessOf honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuou

genuine,guileless,honest,innocent,naive,simple,sincere,unaffected,TRUE,naive

affected,artful,artificial,assuming,cosmopolitan,critical,cynical,dishonest,fake,Guileful

ingenuity => ingenuity, ingenue => ingenue, ingenite => Inborn, ingenit => congenital, ingeniousness => ingenuity,