Ingenuous

In`gen´u`ous

a.	1.	Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
	2.	Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal. If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but carefully and early instilled, that is the true and genuine method to obviate dishonesty. - Locke.
	3.	Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc. 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.
	4.	Ingenious.

Adj.	1.	ingenuous - characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility" Synonyms: artless Antonyms: artful, disingenuous - not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"
	2.	ingenuous - 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