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Defenition of the word ingenuous

    • Defenition of the word ingenuous

      • Lacking in sophistication or worldliness.
      • characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
      • 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"
      • 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"
      • characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
      • lacking in sophistication or worldliness

    Synonyms for the word ingenuous

      • artless
      • candid
      • frank
      • honest
      • innocent
      • naive
      • simple
      • sincere
      • trusting

    Similar words in the ingenuous

      • candid
      • heart-to-heart
      • ingenuous
      • ingenuously
      • ingenuousness
      • ingenuousness's
      • naif
      • naive
      • open
      • sincere
      • undistorted

    Antonyms for the word ingenuous

      • artful
      • disingenuous

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