Usually means: Showing innocent and unsuspecting nature.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word ingenuous:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. ingenuous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ingenuous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ingenuous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ingenuous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ingenuous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ingenuous, ingenuous: Wordnik
  7. ingenuous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ingenuous: Wiktionary
  9. ingenuous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ingenuous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ingenuous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ingenuous, ingenuous: Dictionary.com
  13. ingenuous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Ingenuous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ingenuous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ingenuous: Rhymezone
  17. ingenuous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ingenuous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. ingenuous: Free Dictionary
  20. ingenuous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ingenuous: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ingenuous: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. ingenuous: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ingenuous: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Naive and trusting.
adjective:  Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
adjective:  Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious.
adjective:  Unable to mask one's feelings.
adjective:  Straightforward, candid, open, frank.

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