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adjective
1.
free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
2.
artless; innocent; naive.
3.
Obsolete. honorable or noble.
Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin ingenuus native, free-born, honorable, frank, equivalent to in- in-2 + gen- (base of gignere; see ingenious) + -uus deverbal adj. suffix; see -ous
1590–1600; < Latin ingenuus native, free-born, honorable, frank, equivalent to in- in-2 + gen- (base of gignere; see ingenious) + -uus deverbal adj. suffix; see -ous
Related forms
in·gen·u·ous·ly, adverb
in·gen·u·ous·ness, noun
half-in·gen·u·ous, adjective
half-in·gen·u·ous·ly, adverb
half-in·gen·u·ous·ness, noun
Synonyms
1. frank, straightforward, open. 2. guileless.
1. frank, straightforward, open. 2. guileless.
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Word Origin & History
ingenuous
1598, from L. ingenuus "with the virtues of freeborn people, of noble character, frank," originally "native, freeborn," from in- "in" + gen-, root of gignere "beget, produce" (see genus). Sense of "artless, innocent" is 1673, from notion of "honorably straightforward."
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