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Word: Ingenuous
Speech Type: Adjective
Etymology:
late 16th century: from Latin ingenuus literally ‘native, inborn’, from in- ‘into’ + an element related to gignere ‘beget’. The original sense was ‘noble, generous’, giving rise to ‘honourably straightforward, frank’, hence ‘innocently frank’ (late 17th century)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ɪnˈdʒɛnjʊəs
Dialects: British English
Definition:
(of a person or action) innocent and unsuspecting
Short Definition:innocent and unsuspecting
Examples:- he eyed her with wide, ingenuous eyes
- she's staggeringly ingenuous, or possibly very cunning indeed
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