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The meaning of INGENUOUS is showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness. How to use ingenuous in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Ingenuous.
adjective. formal uk / ɪnˈdʒen.ju.əs / us / ɪnˈdʒen.ju.əs / Add to word list. honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly: It has to be said it was rather ingenuous of him to ask a complete stranger to take care of his luggage. Opposite. disingenuous formal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Naive & trusting.
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.
noun. 1. the quality of being naive, artless, or innocent. 2. the state or quality of being candid, frank, or straightforward. The word ingenuousness is derived from ingenuous, shown below. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. ingenuous in British English. (ɪnˈdʒɛnjʊəs ) adjective. 1. naive, artless, or innocent. 2.
ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit type of: candidness , candor , candour , directness , forthrightness , frankness
