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ingenuous
adjective
Reveal meaning and examples
Innocent, candid, and free from artifice, sometimes naively so.
Her ingenuous question revealed a problem the experts had overlooked.
During a photography workshop, Celia gave a forthright account of why her proposed exhibition had been delayed: she had missed the venue's submission deadline. A new participant asked an ingenuous question about why she had not simply requested another date, unaware of the limits on the booking calendar.