ingenuous
Meanings
adj
- Naive and trusting.
- Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
- Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious.
- Unable to mask one's feelings.
- Straightforward, candid, open, frank.
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ingenuus (“of noble character, frank”). Doublet of ingenu.
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