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

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

   "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"

   Synonyms: artless

6. adjective. 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"

   Synonyms: innocent

Synonyms

artless, innocent

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in ingenuous:

unigenous

Common word forms

ingenuously, ingenuousness

Words from these letters

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