·adj Ingenious.
II. Ingenuous ·adj Of honorable extraction; freeborn; noble; as, ingenuous blood of birth.
III. Ingenuous ·adj Noble; generous; magnanimous; honorable; upright; high-minded; as, an ingenuous ardor or zeal.
IV. Ingenuous ·adj Free from reserve, disguise, equivocation, or dissimulation; open; frank; as, an ingenuous man; an ingenuous declaration, confession, ·etc.