Words and phrases that have a meaning related to ingenuous: (124 results)
Antonyms:
artful, disingenuous
Often used in the same context:
guileless, ingenious, obtuse, simpleminded, clever, sly, tricksy, beguiling, mischievous, endearing, winsome, devious, insouciant, artless, glib, swiftian, childlike, teacherly, facile, smarmy, blithe, pernickety, womanish, cynical, scatty, droll, rationalistic, sophistical, supercilious, puppyish, nerdish, callow, ludic, jesuitical, adroit, weaselly, manipulative, rebarbative, peevish, eggheaded, unselfconscious, sneery, fatuous, devilish, goatish, larky, charming, untutored, impish, prolix, impertinent, schoolmarmish, empathetic, inventive, naive, crafty, dandyish, worldly, overfamiliar, artful, conceited, fanciful, duplicitous, foppish, parodic, genial, lugubrious, ingratiating, reductive, doltish, imaginative, priggish, guileful, amiable, prankish, daffy, prosaic, sinister, simplistic, recondite, phlegmatic, cunning, archetypal, sardonic, oedipal, fuddled, ineloquent, irksome, saintly, jocose, mulish, lecherous, jejune, ungifted, banal, bathetic, good naturedness, empathic, diffident, unthought, commonsensical, pious, na'ive, nai've, trustful, timid, reticent, manly, bashful, carefree, chastened, dejected, frank, innocent, shy, vivacious
Appears in the definition of:
artlessly, ingenuously
Synonyms:
Also try:candid, naif, open, undistorted
— Nouns for ingenuous: youth, mind, face, man, countenance, confession, smile, nature, minds, shame, manner, more...
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