1. Adjective
Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
2. Adjective
Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
3. Adjective
Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, etc.
4. Adjective
Ingenious.
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