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INGENUOUS definition: 1. honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly: 2. honest, sincere, and…. Learn more.
- English (US)
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...
- English (US)
Ingenuous is most often used to describe someone who has a childlike innocence and openness. It should not be confused with ingenious, which typically describes someone who is unusually inventive or clever, or something made or done in an especially original or clever way.
adjective. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious. “an ingenuous admission of responsibility” synonyms: artless. candid, heart-to-heart, open. openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness. undistorted. without alteration or misrepresentation. sincere. open and genuine; not deceitful. naif, naive.
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.
If you describe someone as ingenuous, you mean that they are innocent, trusting, and honest.
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).
Definition of ingenuous adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
