Origin: Latin
suffix -ous
Ingenuous has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
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"
Example Sentences
"an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
adjective
"a child's innocent stare"
adjective
"his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
adjective