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Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

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  1. a. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
  2. a. Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
  3. a. Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
  4. a. Ingenious.
  5. adj. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
  6. adj. lacking in sophistication or worldliness
  7. j:100 a. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious