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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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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.
INGENUOUS definition: 1. honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly: 2. honest, sincere, and…. Learn more.
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.
INGENUOUS meaning: 1. honest, sincere, and trusting, sometimes in a way that seems silly: 2. honest, sincere, and…. Learn more.
Anything ingenious is smart and clever, but ingenuous means innocent and naive. The ingenious villain in your favorite comic book series might come up with diabolical plots, while the ingenuous heroine doesn't suspect a thing.
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.
Jun 2, 2024 · ingenuous ( comparative more ingenuous, superlative most ingenuous) Naive and trusting. Demonstrating childlike simplicity . Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious . Unable to mask one's feelings. Straightforward, candid, open, frank .
Ingenuous definition: Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; innocent or naive.
