Ingenuous

Definition: Ingenuous

Ingenuous

Adjective

1. Characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility".

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ingenuous" was first used: 1598. (references)

Etymology: Ingenuous \In*gen"u*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression ingenuus inborn, innate, freeborn, noble, frank; prefix in- in the root of gignere to beget. See Genius, and compare to Ingenious.]. (references)

Synonyms: Ingenuous

Artlessness

Adjective: artless, natural, pure, native, confiding, simple, lain, inartificial, untutored, unsophisticated, ingenu, unaffected, naive; sincere, frank; open, open as day; candid, ingenuous, guileless; unsuspicious, honest; innocent; Arcadian; undesigning, straightforward, unreserved, aboveboard; simple-minded, single-minded; frank-hearted, open-hearted, single-hearted, simple-hearted.

Simplicity

Unaffected; ingenuous, sincere (artless); free from affectation, free from ornament; simplex munditiis; sans facon, en deshabille.

Veracity

Adjective: truthful, true; veracious, veridical; scrupulous; (honorable); sincere, candid, frank, open, straightforward, unreserved; open hearted, true hearted, simple-hearted; honest, trustworthy; undissembling; (dissemble; ); guileless, pure; truth-loving; unperjured; true blue, as good as one's word; unaffected, unfeigned, bona fide; outspoken, ingenuous; (artless); undisguised; (real).

Crosswords: Ingenuous

But what she lost in ingenuous grace, she gained in pensive and serious charm

Albanian

i thjeshtë (abecedarian, artless, austere, bare, chaste, childlike, common, easy, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, Hick, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, neat, not mingled, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, quotidian, rude, russet, rustic, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, very), i sinqertë (candid, devout, earnest, explicit, Frank, free, free-hearted, free-spoken, genuine, honest, onefold, open, outgiving, outspoken, plain spoken, sincere, single minded, single-eyed, single-hearted, Square, transparent, true, true-hearted, truthful, unaffected, unreserved, whole-souled), zemërçelur (candid, fair, open-hearted, sincere, unfeigned), naiv (credulous, fond, lamb, naïve, naif, simpleminded, untutored). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ساذج (artless, credulous, drip, gaga, gimp, green, guileless, gullible, honest, innocent, mug, naive, ninny, oafish, pastoral, patsy, platitudinous, primitive, provincial, silly, simple, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly), ‏صريح (bare, bluff, candid, categorical, communicative, crude, direct, downright, expansive, explicit, flat, forthcoming, forthright, frank, genuine, guileless, honest, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, palpable, plain, plain spoken, plump, point blank, pronounced, raw, round, simple-hearted, steady, straight, straightforward, transparent, unreserved, unvarnished), ‏برئ (angelic, artless, blameless, clear, guileless, guiltless, harmless, honest, inculpable, innocent, naive, pure, simple, starry eyed, white). (various references)

Bulgarian 

откровен (candid, forthright, guileless, open, openhearted, outright, plain, plainspoken, point blank, round, simple minded, simple-hearted, sincere, straight, transparent, unvarnished), открит (above board, bare, bleak, demonstrative, discovered, exposed, free for all, obvious, open, open air, openhearted, outspoken, overt, public, straight, straightforward, transparent, unclosed, uncovered, unscreened, unshaded, wind swept), наивен (artless, fond, green, guileless, gullible, jejune, naпve, naif, silly, simple, undesigning, unsophisticated, untutored, unworldly, wide-eyed), естествен (artless, honorary, innate, living, matter of course, native, natural, simple, spontaneous, unceremonious, uncoined, unpretending, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstarched, unstrained, untaught, untutored), безобиден (harmless, unobjectionable, unoffending), простодушен (innocent, simple, unartful, undesigning, unsophisticated). (various references)

Chinese 

真诚. (various references)

Czech

upřímný (candid, direct, fair dealing, feeling, Frank, free-hearted, genuine, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, honest, on the up and up, open, open-hearted, outspoken, plain, plainspoken, simple, sincere, single-hearted, straight, straightforward, transparent, true, true-hearted, unaffected, unreserved), bezelstný (artless, dewy-eyed, guileless, innocent, naïve, simple minded, unworldly). (various references)

Farsi 

صاف وساده (Candid), رک گو (Frank, Open, Unreserve), بی تزویر (Candid). (various references)

French

candide. (various references)

German

unbefangen (natural, unbiased, unbiasedly, unbiassed, unbiassedly), offen (open, openly, overtly, unconcealed, candidly, exposed, forthright, frank, frankly). (various references)

Greek 

ανεπιτήδευτοσ (unaffected), αφελήσ (artless, naοve, naif, simple, simpleminded). (various references)

Hebrew 

תמים (blameless, complete, entire, guileless, honest, innocent, naןve, simple, unsophisticated, upright, whole), תם (artless, honest, innocent, naןve, simple). (various references)

Hungarian

természetes (axiomatical, genial), naiv (gullible), mesterkéletlen (artless, genial, homespun, naive, racy of the soil, simple, unadorned, unstudied, untutored), egyenes (direct, line, sincere, straightaway), õszinte (above board, candid, disarming, downright, guileless, heart-felt, honest, naïve, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, simple-hearted, sincere, straight out, straightforward, transparent, unfeigned, ungrudging, whole-hearted). (various references)

Indonesian

naif. (various references)

Italian

semplice (simple, single, straightforward). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

淡白 (candid, frank, indifferent, plain, simple). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たんぱく (candid, egg white, frank, indifferent, light, plain, protein, simple). (various references)

Norwegian

troskyldig, oppriktig (candid, frank). (various references)

Pig Latin

ingenuousay.(various references)

Portuguese

inocente (innocent), ing�nuo (green, gullible, ingenue), sincero (sincere), simples (simple, mere), franco (sincere), aberto (open). (various references)

Romanian

inocent (clean, guileless, guiltless, harmless, innocent, sackless, unoffending, virgin), ingenuu (artless), sincer (above board, artless, authentic, blunt, candid, candidly, childlike, devout, downright, fair, forthright, Frank, frankly, freehearted, free-spoken, genuine, guileless, heartfelt, heart-whole, hearty, honest, honestly, kind, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, plain, plainly, right-down, round, sincere, single, straight, straightforward, true, truly, truthful, undisguised, unfeigned, unpretending, unreserved, well-meant), franc (coin, franc, Frank, sincere, undisguised), candid (innocent, sincere, virginal). (various references)

Russian 

бесхитростный (artless, shiftless, simpleminded). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naivan (artless, dupable, naďve, naif, starry eyed), bezazlen (artless, childish, guileless, harmless, innocent, laudable, naďve, simplehearted, simple-hearted, unoffending, unsuspecting). (various references)

Spanish

inocente (guiltless, innocent), ingenuo (guileless), que es de inocente, candido (sincere, undesigning). (various references)

Swedish

frimodig (bold, Frank), öppen (open, overt). (various references)

Thai

บริสุทธิ์ใจ. (various references)

Turkish

içten (bluff, bona fide, candid, childlike, cordial, deep, deeply, devout, earnest, faithful, familiar, forthright, genuine, gut, hail-fellow-well-met, heartfelt, heart-to-heart, heart-whole, hearty, honest, honest-to-god, honest-to-goodness, internally, inwardly, kindly, open, open armed, openhearted, open-hearted, sincere, sincerely, true, true-hearted, truly, truthful, unaffected, undesigning, unfeigned, whole-hearted), temiz kalpli (harmless, homespun, pure-minded, simple, simple minded, simple-hearted), saftrik (innocent, rube), saf (clean, pure), masum (blameless, clear, guiltless, harmless, immaculate, innocent, lamblike, sinless, wide-eyed), doğal (artless, connatural, easy, free, inartificial, inborn, inbred, indigenous, inherent, innate, native, natural, spontaneous, unaffected, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied), açık sözlü (bluff, blunt, expansive, explicit, forthcoming, Frank, free-spoken, honest, outspoken, plain spoken, plainspoken, plump, straight out, unreserved). (various references)

Ukrainian

щирий (candid, cordial, devout, earnest, genuine, heartfelt, hearty, onefold, open armed, outspoken, pure-minded, simple, sincere, true-hearted, unaffected, whole-hearted, whole-souled), нехитрий (simple minded), благородний (big, chivalrous, genteel, high minded, high-hearted, hightoned, knightly, noble, noble-minded, superb, whole-souled). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chân thật ngây thơ. (various references)

Welsh

unplyg (folio, of one fold, simple), disyml (artless, simple). (various references)

ingenuus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ingenuous": ingenuously, ingenuousness, ingenuousnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "ingenuous": disingenuous. (additional references)

Words containing "ingenuous": disingenuously, disingenuousness, disingenuousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ingenuous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: engenuous, ingeneous, ingennuous, ingenous, ingenuis, ingenuorum, ingenuos, ingenuouss, ingenuousz, ingenvous, ingrenuous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: enginous.

-2 letters: ensuing, guenons, gunnies, igneous.

-3 letters: ennuis, ensign, genius, guenon, nonuse, nosing, soigne, ungues, unguis, unions, unison, unsung.

-4 letters: ennui, eosin, genus, guise, negus, neons, nines, noise, nones, nouns, segni, segno, sengi, singe, suing, union, using.

-5 letters: egis, egos, engs, eons, gens, genu, gien, gies, gins, gnus, goes, gone, guns, inns, ions, neon, nine.

+2 letters: ingenuously, sanguineous.

+3 letters: countersuing, disingenuous.

+4 letters: countinghouse, ingenuousness, nonleguminous, unquestioning.

+5 letters: consanguineous, contiguousness, countinghouses, disingenuously, pugnaciousness, superabounding, ungraciousness.