ingenuous

Definitions

Innocent, unsuspecting, and childlike in nature.

Showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness.

Examples

The child's ingenuous smile revealed her complete lack of guile.

He was too ingenuous to suspect that his colleagues were trying to deceive him.

Synonyms

naive innocent artless candid guileless unsophisticated frank

Antonyms

cunning deceitful sophisticated calculating wily insincere crafty