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   ingenuous

   /ɪnˈdʒɛnjʊəs/

   adjective

   • 1. (of a person or action) innocent and unsuspecting: "he eyed her with wide, ingenuous eyes"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from Latin ingenuus literally ‘native, inborn’, from in- ‘into’ + an element related to gignere ‘beget’. The original sense was ‘noble, generous’, giving rise to ‘honourably straightforward, frank’, hence ‘innocently frank’ (late 17th century).

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   • 1. ingenuously adverb
   • 2. ingenuousness noun

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   What is the difference between naive and ingenuous?

   • Ingenuous is roughly synonymous with naive, and its antonym is disingenuous, which means "giving a false impression of being honest and sincere." Don't confuse the word ingenuous with the similarly spelled ingenious, which means "very smart or clever." Ingenuous is from Latin ingenuus "having the qualities of people born free, noble, honest, open."

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   What does ingênuo mean?

   • ingênuo… Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! INGENUOUS definition: 1. honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly: 2. honest, sincere, and…. Learn more.

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   What does Ingenuus mean?

   • Learned borrowing from Latin ingenuus (“of noble character, frank”). Doublet of ingenu. ingenuous (comparative more ingenuous, superlative most ingenuous) Naive and trusting. Demonstrating childlike simplicity. "Do you mean to say you didn't leave your wife for another woman?" Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious.

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   What does ingenuousness mean?

   • Straightforward or frank; candid: "I must be so ingenuous as to own that the accounts are not so certain as to the exact time and place of his birth" (Memoir of Martinus Scriblerus). [Latin ingenuus, honest, freeborn; see genə- in Indo-European roots.] in·gen′u·ous·ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

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   Ingenuous means honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly. Learn how to use this formal adjective with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and translations in different languages.

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     INGENUOUS meaning: 1. honest, sincere, and trusting,...

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     ingenuous definicja: 1. honest, sincere, and trusting,...

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     INGENUOUS translate: 天真的;胸無城府的. Learn more in the Cambridge...

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   Ingenuous means showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness, not to be confused with ingenious, which means unusually inventive or clever. Learn more about the word history, synonyms, examples, and related articles of ingenuous.

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   Ingenuous means innocent, trusting, and honest. It is often used to describe someone's appearance or behavior. See synonyms, pronunciation, examples, and word origin of ingenuous.

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   adjective. lacking in sophistication or worldliness. synonyms: innocent. naif, naive. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience. adjective. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious. “an ingenuous admission of responsibility” synonyms: artless. candid, heart-to-heart, open.

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   Ingenious means clever or cleverly inventive or resourceful. Ingenuous means sincere or, perhaps more commonly, naive or innocent. Careful: ingenious sounds like genius (the two are often used in the same contexts and even come from the same root) but it’s not spelled ingenius.

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   Ingenuous means honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly. Learn how to use this formal adjective with examples from different sources and translations in other languages.

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    adj. 1. Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; innocent or naive: I'm not so ingenuous as to believe everything he says. See Synonyms at naive. 2. Straightforward or frank; candid: "I must be so ingenuous as to own that the accounts are not so certain as to the exact time and place of his birth" (Memoir of Martinus Scriblerus).