Adjective ingenuous has 2 senses
  1. ingenuous, artless - characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; "an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
    Antonyms: disingenuous, artful, distorted, misrepresented, perverted, twisted
  2. innocent, ingenuous - lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
    Antonym: sophisticated (indirect, via naive)
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