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noun
An innocent, unsophisticated, naive, wholesome boy or young man.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: homme fatal
History
Borrowed from French ingénu (“guileless”), especially as used by Voltaire in L'Ingénu, from Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”). Doublet of ingenuous.
