adj
Meaning 1
Naive and trusting.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
ingenuous
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Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/
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adj
Meaning 2
Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 4
Unable to mask one's feelings.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adj
Meaning 5
Straightforward, candid, open, frank.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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adjective
Meaning 6
characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an ingenuous admission of responsibility
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: artless
Antonyms: disingenuous
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
lacking in sophistication or worldliness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: innocent
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ingenuus (“of noble character, frank”). Doublet of ingenu.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: наивен (naiven) — naive and trusting
- Bulgarian: доверчив (doverčiv) — naive and trusting
- Catalan: ingenu — naive and trusting
- Catalan: naïf — naive and trusting
- Finnish: sinisilmäinen — naive and trusting
- Finnish: luottavainen — naive and trusting
- French: ingénu — naive and trusting
- German: arglos — naive and trusting
- German: freimütig — naive and trusting
- German: treuherzig — naive and trusting
- German: unverdorben — naive and trusting
- Irish: soineanta — naive and trusting
- Occitan: ingenú — naive and trusting
- Polish: prostoduszny — naive and trusting
- Portuguese: ingénuo — naive and trusting
- Romanian: ingenuu — naive and trusting
- Romanian: inocent — naive and trusting
- Spanish: inocente — naive and trusting
- Spanish: ingenuo — naive and trusting
- Thai: ซื่อ (sʉ̂ʉ) — naive and trusting
- Ottoman Turkish: ساده (sade) — naive and trusting
- Ottoman Turkish: طوی (toy) — naive and trusting
- Bulgarian: простодушен (prostodušen) — childlike, simple
- Catalan: ingenu — childlike, simple
- Esperanto: simplanima — childlike, simple
- Finnish: sinisilmäinen — childlike, simple
- Finnish: viaton — childlike, simple
- Finnish: yksinkertainen — childlike, simple
- French: ingénu — childlike, simple
- German: unbedarft — childlike, simple
- German: schlicht — childlike, simple
- Italian: ingenuo — childlike, simple
- Norwegian Bokmål: troskyldig — childlike, simple
- Romanian: ingenuu — childlike, simple
- Russian: бесхи́тростный (besxítrostnyj) — childlike, simple
- Thai: ใสซื่อ — childlike, simple
- Thai: ไร้เดียงสา (rái-diiang-sǎa) — childlike, simple
- Bulgarian: искрен (iskren) — straightforward, open
- Bulgarian: открит (otkrit) — straightforward, open
- Finnish: teeskentelemätön — straightforward, open
- Finnish: mutkaton — straightforward, open
- Māori: pōaha — straightforward, open