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ingenuous

/in-jen-yoo-uhs/US // ɪnˈdʒɛn yu əs //UK // (ɪnˈdʒɛnjʊəs) //

天真烂漫,天真无邪,天真烂漫的,天真

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : free from reserve, restraint, or dissimulation; candid; sincere.
    • : artless; innocent; naive.
    • : Obsolete. honorable or noble.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.honest, trustful

Examples

  • Netanyahu, and even some ingenuous pundits, are bragging about how Israel and America have never been closer.

  • During the ingenuous apologia pro vita sua Miss Anne regarded him with her honest candour.

  • This was the most perfect specimen of the bluff, hearty, breezy, almost ingenuous Westerner that Gwynne had encountered.

  • "I know you wouldn't wish me to affect an interest I do not feel," said Haggard with an ingenuous smile.

  • His replies were perfectly ingenuous, evincing nothing of the natural taciturnity and shyness of the Indian mind.

  • Her piety was not free from puerile pleasures; for everything, even religion, was poetry to her ingenuous heart.