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