Ingenuous



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj.纯朴的, 单纯的
• ［英］ adj.纯朴的, 单纯的 ( simple; artless)

Webster Collegiate

I. adjective

• Etymology: by alteration
• Date: 1588
• obsolete ingenious

II. adjective

• Etymology: Latin ingenuus native, freeborn, from in- + gignere to beget — more at kin
• Date: 1588
• 1. obsolete noble, honorable
• 2.
  • a. showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness <her ingenuous thirst for experience — Christopher Rawson>
  • b. lacking craft or subtlety <ingenuous in their brutality>
• Synonyms: see natural
• ? ingenuously adverb
• ? ingenuousness noun

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