Someone who is ingenuous shows a childlike innocence, trust, and openness. One of the things kindergarten teachers value is the chance to work with kids while they're still relatively ingenuous––their open, trusting natures are a joy.
Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble;
Adjective
characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
Adjective S.
lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "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"
a.
Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous
blood of birth.
a.
Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright;
high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
a.
Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or
dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous
declaration, confession, etc.
a.
Ingenious.
Ingenuous
If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuin method to obviate dishonesty.3.
Sensible in myself . . . what a burden it is for me, who would be ingenuous, to be loaded with courtesies which he hath not the least hope to requite or deserve.4.
Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble;
Usage Examples
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