INGENUOUS

(adj.) characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
"an ingenuous admission of responsibility"
synonyms : artless
The child’s face was filled with an artless expression when she dropped her ice cream. -added by naila_inlas
(adj.) 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"
synonyms : innocent

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(Tag: Global) IN (suffix, means NO) + (genuous) (genius) ~ one who is not a genius artist and hence is artless ~ INGENUOUS
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Mnemonics for ingenuous

(Tag: ) In+genuine- In genuine relationship people are naive and trusting to each other.
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(Tag: ) naive and young ppl are generally genuine...
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(Tag: superlike mnemonic) Now i am telling the difference between ingenious and ingenuous...."I AM GENIOUS,U ARE FOOL".Please see the in ingenuous 'u' is there after 'n'.From this we can infer that ingenious--->clever... ingenuous---->fool
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(Tag: ) like engine; no pretention.
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(Tag: English) it comes from ingenue which means a young naive young woman ingenue ~ genie and we know that genie is very childish
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(Tag: ) The INGENUE is INGENUOUS
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(Tag: ) Ingenuous = Innocence makes you intuitive genius while being too smart leads you nowhere.
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(Tag: ) its synonym is CANDID(spell as candy).. candy is eaten by NAIVE & YOUNG people..
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(Tag: ) ingenuous has sound of jejune which means child or naive
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