Ingenu
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ingenu is a noun meaning (rare) An innocent, unsophisticated, naive, wholesome boy or young man.
Meaning
(rare) An innocent, unsophisticated, naive, wholesome boy or young man.
Example Sentences
You seem pleasant and harmless with your dark ingenu eyes and your nice Midwestern manners.
And ... he examines ingénus like Oliver Twist and David Copperfield whose lives Dickens renders as patterns of self-growth towards moral health.
The innocent childlike nature of the Ingenu is perhaps his most obvious and charming characteristic and has been much noted. ... But actual children are rare among the Ingenus .
Even a casual reader of the philosophic tale will have met, in the array of types on parade-an oft-repeated "naïf" (who was anything but naive), at least one famed "candide," and several "ingénus."
Word Forms
- ingenus
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ingenuous, innocent, mangenue, nocent, gentleboy, stripling.
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