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- Dictionaryingenuous/ɪnˈdʒɛnjʊəs/
adjective
- 1. (of a person or action) innocent and unsuspecting: "he eyed her with wide, ingenuous eyes"
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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.
- English (US)
INGENUOUS meaning: 1. honest, sincere, and trusting,...
- Simplified
INGENUOUS translate: 天真的;胸无城府的. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Traditional
INGENUOUS translate: 天真的;胸無城府的. Learn more in the Cambridge...
- Znaczenie Ingenuous, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
ingenuous definicja: 1. honest, sincere, and trusting,...
- Ingenuously
INGENUOUSLY definition: 1. in an honest, sincere, and...
- Pronunciation in English
INGENUOUS pronunciation. How to say ingenuous. Listen to the...
- Ingest
INGEST definition: 1. to eat or drink something: 2. to eat...
- Ingenious
INGENIOUS definition: 1. (of a person) very intelligent and...
- English (US)
Ingenuous means showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness, or lacking craft or subtlety. It is often confused with ingenious, which means unusually inventive or clever. Learn more about the word history, synonyms, examples, and related articles.
Ingenuous means innocent, trusting, and honest. It can also mean candid, frank, or straightforward. See synonyms, pronunciation, examples, and word origin of ingenuous.
Ingenuous means honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly. Learn how to use this formal adjective with examples and translations in different languages.
Ingenuous, on the other hand, is most commonly used to describe people—typically people considered naive or overly trusting, especially due to a lack of real-world experience. The related noun ingénue refers to a young, inexperienced person.
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.
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).
