Ingenious vs. Ingenuous

Ingeniousadjective

Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.

Ingeniousadjective

Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.

Ingeniousadjective

Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.

Ingeniousadjective

Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic.

Ingeniousadjective

Proceeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc.

Ingeniousadjective

Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.

Ingeniousadjective

Mental; intellectual.

Ingeniousadjective

(used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action;

Ingeniousadjective

skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends;

Ingeniousadjective

showing inventiveness and skill;

Ingenuousadjective

Naive and trusting.

Ingenuousadjective

Demonstrating childlike simplicity.

Ingenuousadjective

Unsophisticated; simple.

Ingenuousadjective

Unable to mask one's feelings.

Ingenuousadjective

Straightforward, candid, open, and frank.

Ingenuousadjective

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

Ingenuousadjective

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

Ingenuousadjective

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

Ingenuousadjective

Ingenious.

Ingenuousadjective

characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious;

Ingenuousadjective

lacking in sophistication or worldliness;

Ingenuousadjective

(of a person or action) innocent and unsuspecting