Ingenuous

[in-jen-yoo-uh s] /ɪnˈdʒɛn yu əs/

adjective
1.
free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
2.
artless; innocent; naive.
3.
Obsolete. honorable or noble.
/ɪnˈdʒɛnjʊəs/
adjective
1.
naive, artless, or innocent
2.
candid; frank; straightforward
adj.

1590s, “noble in nature,” from Latin ingenuus “with the virtues of freeborn people, of noble character, frank, upright, candid,” originally “native, freeborn,” from in- “in” (see in- (2)) + gen-, root of gignere “beget, produce” (see genus). Sense of “artless, innocent” is 1670s, via evolution from “high-minded” to “honorably open, straightforward,” to “innocently frank.” Related: Ingenuously; ingenuousness.

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