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Translate ingenuous from English to French

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ingenuous:
- Wiktionary:
  ingenuous → ingénu, naïf
- Synonyms for "ingenuous":
  artless; candid; open; heart-to-heart; undistorted; naive; naif; sincere
  innocent; naive; naif

English

Detailed Translations for ingenuous from English to French

ingenuous:

Translation Matrix for ingenuous:

Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	artless; innocent

Synonyms for "ingenuous":

artless; candid; open; heart-to-heart; undistorted; naive; naif; sincere
innocent; naive; naif

Antonyms for "ingenuous":

disingenuous

Related Definitions for "ingenuous":

characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious¹
- an ingenuous admission of responsibility¹
lacking in sophistication or worldliness¹
- his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it¹

Wiktionary Translations for ingenuous:

ingenuous

adjective

unsophisticated, simple
- ingenuous → ingénu

ingenuous

adjective

Qui a de la simplicité et presque de la naïveté dans la franchise.
- ingénu → ingenuous
naturel, ingénu, sans fard, sans apprêt, sans artifice.
- naïf → naive; naïve; naïf; naif; ingenuous; innocent; simple

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University