Meaning & Definition of Ingenuous in English
English⟶
Ingenuous
/ɪnʤɛnjuəs/
adjective
1. Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings
- Not devious
- "An ingenuous admission of responsibility"
synonym:
- ingenuous,
- artless
2. 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"
synonym:
- innocent,
- ingenuous