Dictionary Entry
ingenuous
ingenuous is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
9 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 15 · 6 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
- 2adjective
Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
- 3adjective
Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
- 4adjective
Ingenious.
- 5adjective
characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
"an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
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- 6adjective
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"
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