Ingenuous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; artless.
  • adj. Openly straightforward or frank; candid. See Synonyms at naive.
  • adj. Obsolete Ingenious.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Naive and trusting.
  • adj. Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
  • adj. Unsophisticated; simple.
  • adj. Unable to mask one's feelings.
  • adj. Straightforward, candid, open, and frank.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble.
  • adj. Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded.
  • adj. Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank
  • adj. Ingenious.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Freeborn; of honorable extraction.
  • Generous; noble: as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
  • Free from restraint or reserve; frank; open; candid: used of persons or things: as, an ingenuous mind; an ingenuous confession.
  • Same as ingenious.
  • Synonyms Frank, Naïve, etc. (see candid); unreserved, artless, guileless, straightforward, truthful.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
  • adj. lacking in sophistication or worldliness
  • Equivalent
    heart-to-heart    open    undistorted    candid    naive    naïf   
    Antonym
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    Words with the same meaning
    open    frank    sincere    artless    noble    candid    unreserved    plain    fair    generous   
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    artless    candid    frank    guileless    naive    childlike    amiable    boyish    manly    womanly