| a. | 1. | Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; |
| 2. | Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; | |
| 3. | Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; | |
| 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 |