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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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