English Dictionary

ingenuous

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.əs/

形容詞

Naive and trusting. / Demonstrating childlike simplicity. / Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious. / Unable to mask one's feelings. / Straightforward, candid, open, and frank.

日本語の意味

純真で無邪気、信頼しやすい / 子供のような単純さを持っている / 洗練されておらず、ぎこちなくあからさまな / 自分の感情を隠すことができずに表に出してしまう / 率直で、遠慮のない、飾らない

Because he was so ingenuous, he accepted the stranger's story without question.

彼はとても純朴で人を信じやすかったので、見知らぬ人の話を何の疑いもなく受け入れた。

意味（1）

Naive and trusting.

意味（2）

Demonstrating childlike simplicity.

Do you mean to say you didn't leave your wife for another woman? Of course not. On your word of honour? I don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me.

意味（3）

Unsophisticated; clumsy or obvious.

The apparent contradictions in his behaviour should therefore be discounted as ingenuous attempts to extricate himself from the consequences of an intellectual position which he once adopted but was never really his by intimate conviction.

意味（4）

Unable to mask one's feelings.

意味（5）

Straightforward, candid, open, and frank.

[H]is Grace’s Man at his club, in company doubtless with other Men of equal social rank, talks over his master’s character and affairs with the ingenuous truthfulness which befits gentlemen who are met together in confidence.

more ingenuous （ comparative ）

most ingenuous （ superlative ）