English-Thai Dictionary

ingenuous

ADJ บริสุทธิ์ใจ  ซึ่ง ไร้เดียงสา  frank innocent straightforward suspicious bo-ri-sud-jai

 

ingenuously

ADV อย่าง บริสุทธิ์ใจ  frankly sincerely sweetly naively yang-bo-ri-sud-jai

 

ingenuousness

N ความบริสุทธิ์ใจ  frankness sincerity innocence kwam-bo-ri-sud-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INGENUOUS

a.[L. ingenuus.] Open; frank; fair; candid; free from reserve, disguise, equivocation or dissimulation; used of persons or things. We speak of an ingenuous mind; an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration or confession. 1. Noble; generous; as an ingenuous ardor or zeal; ingenuous detestation of falsehood.
2. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; as ingenuous blood or birth.

 

INGENUOUSLY

adv. Openly; fairly; candidly; without reserve or dissimulation.

 

INGENUOUSNESS

n.Openness of heart; frankness; fairness; freedom from reserve or dissimulation; as, to confess our faults with ingenuousness. 1. Fairness; candidness; as the ingenuousness of a confession.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INGENUOUS

In *gen "u *ous, a. Etym: [L. ingenuus inborn, innate, freeborn, noble, frank; pref. in- in + the root of gignere to beget. See Genius, and cf. Ingenious. ]

 

1. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

 

2. Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; uprigth; 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 genuin method to obviate dishonesty. Locke.

 

3. Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; sa, 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. [Obs. ] Shak.

 

Note: (Formerly ) printers did not discriminate between. .. ingenuous and ingenious, and these words were used or rather printed interchangeably almost to the begining of the eighteenth century. G. P. Marsh.

 

Syn. -- Open; frank; unreserved; artless; plain; sincere; candid; fair; noble; generous. -- Ingenuous, Open, Frank. One who is open speaks out at once what is uppermost in his mind; one who is frank does it from a natural boldness, or dislike of self-restraint; one who is ingenuous is actuated by a native simplicity and artlessness, which make him willing to confess faults, and make known his sentiments without reserve. See Candid.

 

INGENUOUSLY

INGENUOUSLY In *gen "u *ous *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In an ingenuous manner; openly; fairly; candidly; artlessly. Being required to explane himself, he ingeniously confessed. Ludlow.

 

INGENUOUSNESS

INGENUOUSNESS In *gen "u *ous *ness, n.

 

1. The state or quality of being ingenuous; openness of heart; frankness.

 

2. Ingenuity. [Obs. ] Fuller.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

ingenuous

in gen u ous |inˈjenyo͞oəs ɪnˈenjuəs | ▶adjective (of a person or action ) innocent and unsuspecting. DERIVATIVES in gen u ous ly adverb, in gen u ous ness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin ingenuus, literally ‘native, inborn, ’ from in- ‘into ’ + an element related to gignere ‘beget. ’ The original sense was ‘noble, generous, ’ giving rise to ‘honorably straightforward, frank, ’ hence ‘innocently frank ’ (late 17th cent ). usage: On the difference between ingenuous and ingenious, see usage at ingenious .

 

Oxford Dictionary

ingenuous

ingenuous |ɪnˈdʒɛnjʊəs | ▶adjective (of a person or action ) innocent and unsuspecting. DERIVATIVES ingenuously adverb, ingenuousness noun ORIGIN late 16th cent.: from Latin ingenuus literally ‘native, inborn ’, from in- ‘into ’ + an element related to gignere ‘beget ’. The original sense was ‘noble, generous ’, giving rise to ‘honourably straightforward, frank ’, hence ‘innocently frank ’ (late 17th cent. ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

ingenuous

ingenuous adjective she had never before met a grown man so ingenuous: naive, innocent, simple, childlike, trusting, unwary; unsuspicious, unworldly, wide-eyed, inexperienced, green; open, sincere, honest, frank, candid, forthright, artless, guileless, genuine, upfront. ANTONYMS artful. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See gullible . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

ingenuous

ingenuous adjective he looked at her with wide, ingenuous eyes: naive, innocent, simple, childlike, trusting, trustful, over-trusting, unwary, unsuspicious, unguarded, unsceptical, uncritical, unworldly, wide-eyed, inexperienced, green; open, sincere, honest, frank, candid, undeceitful; direct, forthright, artless, guileless, genuine, unaffected, unstudied, unsophisticated. ANTONYMS disingenuous; artful. EASILY CONFUSED WORDS ingenuous or disingenuous? Although ingenuous is sometimes used as though it meant disingenuous, the words are almost opposite in meaning. Ingenuous means ‘innocent, unsuspecting, and straightforward ’ (his love for her was plain on his ingenuous face ). Disingenuous, on the other hand, means ‘dishonest and devious ’, often suggesting that someone is concealing something (the Minister's argument is disingenuous ). The confusion may be due partly to the similarity between ingenuous and ingenious, the idea being that concealment and insincerity call for clever planning. These notes clear up confusion between similar-looking pairs.CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD ingenuous, naive, artless See naive . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

ingenuous

in gen u ous /ɪndʒénjuəs /形容詞 ｟かたく ｠1 〈人が 〉純真な, 無邪気な, 経験の浅い .2 〈人が 〉率直な, 飾り気のない .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞