meaning of ingenuous
1. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
2. Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
3. Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
4. Ingenious.
5. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of
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Related Words
ingenuous | ingenuously | ingenuousness |
