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ingenuous
[ in-jen-yoo-uhs ]
adjective
Synonyms: open, straightforward, frank, guileless
Synonyms: unsophisticated
- Obsolete. honorable or noble.
ingenuous
/ ɪnˈdʒɛnjʊəs /
adjective
- naive, artless, or innocent
- candid; frank; straightforward
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Derived Forms
- inˈgenuousness, noun
- inˈgenuously, adverb
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Other Words From
- in·genu·ous·ly adverb
- in·genu·ous·ness noun
- half-in·genu·ous adjective
- half-in·genu·ous·ly adverb
- half-in·genu·ous·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ingenuous1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ingenuous1
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Example Sentences
Netanyahu, and even some ingenuous pundits, are bragging about how Israel and America have never been closer.
During the ingenuous apologia pro vita sua Miss Anne regarded him with her honest candour.
This was the most perfect specimen of the bluff, hearty, breezy, almost ingenuous Westerner that Gwynne had encountered.
"I know you wouldn't wish me to affect an interest I do not feel," said Haggard with an ingenuous smile.
His replies were perfectly ingenuous, evincing nothing of the natural taciturnity and shyness of the Indian mind.
Her piety was not free from puerile pleasures; for everything, even religion, was poetry to her ingenuous heart.
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