Word Definition
Ingenuous
- Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
- Ingenious.
- Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
- Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.