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Meaning of 'ingenuous' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Ingenuous [ a.]
- Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
- Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
- Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
- Ingenious.

Meaning of 'ingenuous' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . ingenuous [ a]
Meaning (1):
- characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
Example in sentence:
  • an ingenuous admission of responsibility
2 . ingenuous [ s]
Meaning (2):
- lacking in sophistication or worldliness
Example in sentence:
  • a child's innocent stare;
  • his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it

Nearby Words:

ing ingannation ingate ingathering ingelable ingeminate ingeminated ingeminating ingemination ingena

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