"ingenuous" meaning in English

See ingenuous in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/ [General-American] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-ingenuous.wav Forms: more ingenuous [comparative], most ingenuous [superlative]
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin ingenuus (“of noble character, frank”). Doublet of ingenu. Etymology templates: {{lbor|en|la|ingenuus|t=of noble character, frank}} Learned borrowing from Latin ingenuus (“of noble character, frank”), {{dbt|en|ingenu}} Doublet of ingenu Head templates: {{en-adj}} ingenuous (comparative more ingenuous, superlative most ingenuous)
  1. Naive and trusting. Translations (naive and trusting): наивен (naiven) (Bulgarian), доверчив (doverčiv) (Bulgarian), ingenu (Catalan), naïf (Catalan), sinisilmäinen (Finnish), luottavainen (Finnish), ingénu [masculine] (French), arglos (German), freimütig (German), treuherzig (German), unverdorben (German), soineanta (Irish), ingenú [masculine] (Occitan), ساده (sade) (Ottoman Turkish), طوی (toy) (Ottoman Turkish), prostoduszny (Polish), ingénuo [masculine] (Portuguese), ingenuu (Romanian), inocent (Romanian), inocente (Spanish), ingenuo (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-ingenuous-en-adj-1T8uXD1g Disambiguation of 'naive and trusting': 87 3 5 1 4
  2. Demonstrating childlike simplicity. Translations (childlike, simple): простодушен (prostodušen) (Bulgarian), ingenu (Catalan), simplanima (Esperanto), sinisilmäinen (Finnish), viaton (Finnish), yksinkertainen (Finnish), ingénu [masculine] (French), unbedarft (German), schlicht (German), ingenuo [masculine] (Italian), troskyldig [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ingenuu (Romanian), бесхи́тростный (besxítrostnyj) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-ingenuous-en-adj-M2mTzRoE Disambiguation of 'childlike, simple': 10 76 10 1 2
  3. Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious.
    Sense id: en-ingenuous-en-adj-kucx~KMM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Esperanto translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Irish translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Occitan translations, Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Romanian translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 2 23 46 27 1 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 4 15 67 13 1 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 3 26 56 14 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 2 22 54 22 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 8 14 50 17 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 8 14 50 17 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Esperanto translations: 3 15 58 18 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 8 14 50 17 11 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 6 17 57 19 1 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 5 15 59 17 4 Disambiguation of Terms with Irish translations: 7 13 54 16 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 4 16 61 19 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 8 14 50 17 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 9 14 48 16 12 Disambiguation of Terms with Occitan translations: 5 16 53 19 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations: 8 12 47 15 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 9 15 48 17 10 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 8 15 50 17 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Romanian translations: 8 14 50 17 11 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 4 16 61 19 1 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 4 15 64 15 2
  4. Unable to mask one's feelings.
    Sense id: en-ingenuous-en-adj-O78eeMlm
  5. Straightforward, candid, open, frank. Categories (topical): Personality Translations (straightforward, open): искрен (iskren) (Bulgarian), открит (otkrit) (Bulgarian), teeskentelemätön (Finnish), mutkaton (Finnish), pōaha (Maori)
    Sense id: en-ingenuous-en-adj-tOlvsEPJ Disambiguation of Personality: 28 1 18 2 50 Disambiguation of 'straightforward, open': 5 1 8 1 85
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ingenue, ingénue, ingenu, ingénu
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      "form": "most ingenuous",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "ingenue"
    },
    {
      "word": "ingénue"
    },
    {
      "word": "ingenu"
    },
    {
      "word": "ingénu"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Naive and trusting."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Naive",
          "naive"
        ],
        [
          "trusting",
          "trusting"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 12”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "\"Do you mean to say you didn't leave your wife for another woman?\"\n\"Of course not.\"\n\"On your word of honour?\"\nI don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Demonstrating childlike simplicity."
      ],
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        [
          "childlike",
          "childlike"
        ],
        [
          "simplicity",
          "simplicity"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1965, New Left Review, page 86:",
          "text": "The apparent contradictions in his behaviour should therefore be discounted as ingenuous attempts to extricate himself from the consequences of an intellectual position which he once adopted but was never really his by intimate conviction.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, G. Lebzelter, Political Anti-Semitism in England 1918–1939, page 150:",
          "text": "[…] Semitic agitation by stating 'the truth' in terms of facts and figures, the practice of self-criticism represented a well-intended but ingenuous effort to defend Jewry against anti-Semitism.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Hester Rowan, The Linden Tree:",
          "text": "There was nothing more I dared say. My ingenuous attempts to lie my way out of trouble had only served to get me in deeper and deeper.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Unsophisticated",
          "unsophisticated"
        ],
        [
          "clumsy",
          "clumsy"
        ],
        [
          "obvious",
          "obvious"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Unable to mask one's feelings."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Unable",
          "unable"
        ],
        [
          "feeling",
          "feeling"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 37, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:",
          "text": "[H]is Grace’s Man at his club, in company doubtless with other Men of equal social rank, talks over his master’s character and affairs with the ingenuous truthfulness which befits gentlemen who are met together in confidence.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Straightforward, candid, open, frank."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Straightforward",
          "straightforward"
        ],
        [
          "candid",
          "candid"
        ],
        [
          "open",
          "open"
        ],
        [
          "frank",
          "frank"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "naiven",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "наивен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "doverčiv",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "доверчив"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "ingenu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "naïf"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "sinisilmäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "luottavainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ingénu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "arglos"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "freimütig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "treuherzig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "unverdorben"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "soineanta"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ingenú"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "sade",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "ساده"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "toy",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "طوی"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "prostoduszny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ingénuo"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "ingenuu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "inocent"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "inocente"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "naive and trusting",
      "word": "ingenuo"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "prostodušen",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "word": "простодушен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "word": "ingenu"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "word": "simplanima"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "word": "sinisilmäinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "word": "viaton"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "word": "yksinkertainen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ingénu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "word": "unbedarft"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "word": "schlicht"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ingenuo"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "troskyldig"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "word": "ingenuu"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "besxítrostnyj",
      "sense": "childlike, simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бесхи́тростный"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "iskren",
      "sense": "straightforward, open",
      "word": "искрен"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "otkrit",
      "sense": "straightforward, open",
      "word": "открит"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "straightforward, open",
      "word": "teeskentelemätön"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "straightforward, open",
      "word": "mutkaton"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "straightforward, open",
      "word": "pōaha"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ingenuous"
}

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