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ingenuous
01
showing simplicity, honesty, or innocence and willing to trust others due to a lack of life experience
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
qualitative
Superlative
most ingenuous
Comparative
more ingenuous
gradable
Examples
Her ingenuous questions revealed how new she was to the industry.
02
lacking craft, guile, or subtlety
Examples
His ingenuous remarks revealed more than he intended.
Lexical Tree
disingenuous
ingenuously
ingenuousness
ingenuous
