Ingenuous

Definition:

  • (a.) Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
  • (a.) Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
  • (a.) Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
  • (a.) Ingenious.

Compare ingenuous with other words:

ingenuous vs. progeny

indigenous vs. ingenuous

genuine vs. ingenuous

callow vs. ingenuous

ingenuous vs. literal

guileless vs. ingenuous

artless vs. ingenuous

credulous vs. ingenuous

ingenuous vs. ingenuousness

ingenuous vs. ingenuously

frank vs. ingenuous

candid vs. ingenuous

feeling vs. ingenuous

ingenuous vs. simple

ingenuous vs. simplicity

childlike vs. ingenuous

ingenuous vs. trusting

ingenuous vs. innocent

ingenuous vs. naive

ingenious vs. ingenuous

ingenuity vs. ingenuous

disingenuous vs. ingenuous

ingenuous vs. open

ingenuous vs. reprehensible