honest, innocent and willing to trust people单纯的；天真的 synonym naive- You're too ingenuous.你太老实了。🔊🔊
- an ingenuous smile纯真的微笑
- It is ingenuous to suppose that money did not play a part in his decision.如果以为他的决定没有金钱的因素，那就太天真了。🔊🔊
compare disingenuousTopics Personal qualitiesc2Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin ingenuus literally ‘native, inborn’, from in- ‘into’ + an element related to gignere ‘beget’. The original sense was ‘noble, generous’, giving rise to ‘honourably straightforward, frank’, hence ‘innocently frank’ (late 17th cent.).