ingenuous person

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• ingenuous — in|gen|u|ous [ınˈdʒenjuəs] adj [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: ingenuus born, free born, honest , from gignere to produce children ] an ingenuous person is simple, trusting, and honest, especially because they have not had much experience of… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• ingenuous — ingenious, ingenuous These two words are distantly related and both have undergone a major shift in meaning. Ingenious came into English via French from a Latin source derived from ingenium ‘cleverness’; it originally meant ‘intellectual,… …   Modern English usage

• ingenious, ingenuous, naïve — Ingenious means inventive, resourceful, talented, imaginative. Ingenuous means naïve, frank, unsophisticated, artless. Alex s suggested solution is ingenious. She is an ingenuous little child. Naïve (correctly spelled with a dieresis over the i… …   Dictionary of problem words and expressions

• Koihime Musō — Infobox animanga/Header name = caption = Koihime Musō original visual novel cover. ja kanji = 恋姫†無双 ～ドキッ☆乙女だらけの三国志演義～ ja romaji = Koihime Musō: Doki Otome Darake no Sangokushi Engi genre = Drama, RomanceInfobox animanga/Game developer = BaseSon… …   Wikipedia

• Simple Simon — /sɪmpəl ˈsaɪmən/ (say simpuhl suymuhn) noun Colloquial a stupid or ingenuous person who is easily duped or outwitted. {from the nursery rhyme Simple Simon met a pieman} …  

• ingenious — ingenious, ingenuous These two words are distantly related and both have undergone a major shift in meaning. Ingenious came into English via French from a Latin source derived from ingenium ‘cleverness’; it originally meant ‘intellectual,… …   Modern English usage

• naive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ingenuous, unsophisticated, unworldly, artless. See simpleness, credulity. Ant., knowing, sophisticated. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. ingenuous, artless, unsophisticated, unaffected, innocent, simple …   English dictionary for students

• Luigi Pirandello — Infobox Writer name = Luigi Pirandello birthdate = birth date|1867|6|28|mf=y birthplace = Agrigento, Sicily, Italy deathdate = death date and age|1936|12|10|1867|6|28|mf=y deathplace = Bosio, Rome, Italy occupation = dramatist, author nationality …   Wikipedia

• innocent — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Not guilty] Syn. guiltless, blameless, inculpable, impeccable, faultless, unoffending, free of, uninvolved, honest, above suspicion, clean*, in the clear*; see also reliable 1 , upright 2 . Ant. guilty*, culpable,… …   English dictionary for students

• gullible — adjective he was a swindler who preyed on gullible elderly widows Syn: credulous, naive, overtrusting, overtrustful, easily deceived, easily taken in, exploitable, dupable, impressionable, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, unwary, ingenuous, innocent,… …   Thesaurus of popular words

• natural — adj 1 *regular, normal, typical Analogous words: ordinary, *common, familiar: *usual, customary, habitual, accustomed, wonted Antonyms: unnatural: artificial: adventitious 2 Natural, simple, ingenuous, naive, unsophisticated, artless, unaffected… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms