Search:   Dictionary All Posts
Store Your Knowledge at the Brain Bank!
Login / Register - It's free!

ingenuous Definition

Cancel
Login to Create a ListRegister for Free!
ingenuous
adjective(in-gen-u-ous)
lacking in sophistication or worldliness
Synonyms: innocent,
Examples:
His ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it.
ingenuous
adjective(in-gen-u-ous)
characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
Synonyms: artless,
Antonyms: disingenuous,
Examples:
An ingenuous admission of responsibility.

Words Related to ingenuous!

artless, naive, naif, innocent, candid, undistorted, open, simplistic, naïve, guileless, ingenious, childlike, clever, mischievous, devious, diffident, unselfconscious, amiable, impish, untutored, cunning, idealistic, obtuse, simpleminded, sly, tricksy, beguiling, endearing, winsome, insouciant, glib, swiftian, teacherly, facile, smarmy, blithe, pernickety, womanish, cynical, scatty, droll, rationalistic, sophistical, supercilious, puppyish, nerdish, callow, ludic, jesuitical, adroit, weaselly, manipulative, rebarbative, peevish, fatuous, devilish, goatish, larky, charming, prolix, impertinent, schoolmarmish, empathetic, inventive, crafty, dandyish, worldly, overfamiliar, artful, conceited, fanciful, duplicitous, foppish, parodic, genial, lugubrious, ingratiating, reductive, doltish, imaginative, priggish, guileful, prankish, daffy, prosaic, sinister, recondite, phlegmatic, archetypal, sardonic, oedipal, fuddled, ineloquent, irksome, saintly, jocose, mulish, lecherous, jejune, ungifted,

ingenuous Examples by Brain Bank Users