单词 | ingenuous |
释义 | in·gen·u·ous (ĭn-jĕny-əs) adj. 1. Lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; innocent or naive: I'm not so ingenuous as to believe everything he says. See Synonyms at naive. 2. Straightforward or frank; candid: "I must be so ingenuous as to own that the accounts are not so certain as to the exact time and place of his birth" (Memoir of Martinus Scriblerus). [Latin ingenuus, honest, freeborn; see genə- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] in·genu·ous·ly adv. in·genu·ous·ness n. |
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