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Synonyms for INGENUOUS: genuine, unaffected, honest, simple, innocent, true, naive, guileless; Antonyms of INGENUOUS: false, artful, cynical, artificial, dishonest, critical, assuming, insincere.
The meaning of INGENUOUS is showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness. How to use ingenuous in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Ingenuous.
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adjective. These are words and phrases related to ingenuous. Click on any word or phrase to go to its thesaurus page. Or, go to the definition of ingenuous. She was so charming and ingenuous most people adored her at once.
naif, naive. marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience. adjective. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious. “an ingenuous admission of responsibility”. synonyms: artless. candid, heart-to-heart, open.
ingenuous. adjective. /ɪnˈdʒenjuəs/. /ɪnˈdʒenjuəs/. (formal, sometimes disapproving) honest, innocent and willing to trust people synonym naive. You're too ingenuous. an ingenuous smile. It is ingenuous to suppose that money did not play a part in his decision.
Ingenuous, on the other hand, is most commonly used to describe people—typically people considered naive or overly trusting, especially due to a lack of real-world experience. The related noun ingénue refers to a young, inexperienced person.
