Definitions of ingenuous

1. INGENUOUSNESS.

2. Ingenuously.

3. Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.

4. Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high- minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.

5. Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.

6. Ingenious.

7. Frank; open; innocent; sincere; candid; as, an ingenuous child.

8. Honorable; candid; sincere.

9. Free from disguise or dissimulation.

10. High minded; sincere.

11. Open; frank; generous; of honourable extraction.

12. Open; frank; candid; free from reserve or dissimulation; frankness.