ingenuous
adjectiveLacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness; innocent or naive: synonym: naive.
adjectiveStraightforward or frank; candid.
Freeborn; of honorable extraction.
Generous; noble: as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
Free from restraint or reserve; frank; open; candid: used of persons or things: as, an ingenuous mind; an ingenuous confession.
Same as
Synonyms Frank, Naïve, etc. (see
Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble.
adjectiveNoble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded.
adjectiveFree from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank