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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: ingenuous (0.01982 detik)
Found 4 items, similar to ingenuous.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: ingenuous
tulus
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: ingenuous
naif
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: ingenuous
ingenuous
adj 1: characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not
devious;
“an ingenuous admission of responsibility”
[syn:
artless] [ant:
disingenuous]
2: 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” [syn:
innocent]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ingenuous
Ingenuous
\In*gen"u*ous\, a. [L. ingenuus inborn, innate,
freeborn, noble, frank; pref. in- in + the root of gignere to
beget. See
Genius, and cf.
Ingenious.]
1. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous
blood of birth.
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2. Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright;
high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
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If an ingenuous detestation of falsehood be but
carefully and early instilled, that is the true and
genuine method to obviate dishonesty. --Locke.
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3. Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or
dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an
ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
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Sensible in myself . . . what a burden it is for me,
who would be ingenuous, to be loaded with courtesies
which he hath not the least hope to requite or
deserve. --Fuller.
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4. Ingenious. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Note: (Formerly) printers did not discriminate between . . .
ingenuous and ingenious, and these words were used or
rather printed interchangeably almost to the beginning
of the eighteenth century. --G. P. Marsh.
Syn: Open; frank; unreserved; artless; plain; sincere;
candid; fair; noble; generous.
Usage:
Ingenuous,
Open,
Frank. One who is open speaks
out at once what is uppermost in his mind; one who is
frank does it from a natural boldness, or dislike of
self-restraint; one who is ingenuous is actuated by a
native simplicity and artlessness, which make him
willing to confess faults, and make known his
sentiments without reserve. See
Candid.
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