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ingenuous 音标拼音: [ɪndʒ'ɛnjuəs] a. 坦白的,正直的,天真的 坦白的,正直的,天真的 ingenuous adj 1: characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; " an ingenuous admission of responsibility" [ synonym: { ingenuous}, { artless}] [ ant: { artful}, { disingenuous}] 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" [ synonym: { innocent}, { ingenuous}] Ingenuous \ In* gen" u* ous\, a. [ L. ingenuus inborn, innate, freeborn, noble, frank; pref. in- in the root of gignere to beget. See { Genius}, and cf. { Ingenious}.] 1. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high- minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal. [ 1913 Webster] If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuine method to obviate dishonesty. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc. [ 1913 Webster] Sensible in myself . . . what a burden it is for me, who would be ingenuous, to be loaded with courtesies which he hath not the least hope to requite or deserve. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Ingenious. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Note: ( Formerly) printers did not discriminate between . . . ingenuous and ingenious, and these words were used or rather printed interchangeably almost to the beginning of the eighteenth century. -- G. P. Marsh. Syn: Open; frank; unreserved; artless; plain; sincere; candid; fair; noble; generous. Usage: { Ingenuous}, { Open}, { Frank}. One who is open speaks out at once what is uppermost in his mind; one who is frank does it from a natural boldness, or dislike of self- restraint; one who is ingenuous is actuated by a native simplicity and artlessness, which make him willing to confess faults, and make known his sentiments without reserve. See { Candid}. [ 1913 Webster] 115 Moby Thesaurus words for " ingenuous": artless, bluff, blunt, bold, born yesterday, broad, brusque, budding, callow, candid, childlike, confiding, cullible, deceivable, deludable, dewy, direct, downright, dupable, easy, explicit, exploitable, fair, fair and square, foolable, forthright, frank, frankhearted, free, free- speaking, free- spoken, free- tongued, genuine, green, growing, guileless, gullible, heart- to- heart, hoaxable, honest, honorable, hoodwinkable, humbugable, immature, impubic, inexperienced, ingenu, innocent, intact, juicy, just, minor, naive, natural, new- fledged, on the level, open, openhearted, outspoken, persuadable, plain, plain- spoken, raw, ripening, round, sappy, seduceable, simple, simplehearted, simpleminded, sincere, single- hearted, single- minded, soft, straight, straight- out, straightforward, suggestible, tender, transparent, trustful, trusting, trustworthy, unabashed, unadult, unaffected, unartificial, unchecked, uncomplicated, unconstrained, undeceitful, undeceptive, underage, undeveloped, undissembling, unequivocal, unfeigning, unfledged, unformed, unguarded, uninhibited, unlicked, unmellowed, unreserved, unrestrained, unripe, unschooled, unseasoned, unsophisticated, unstudied, unsuspicious, unwary, vernal, victimizable, virginal
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