Qualities
Synonyms for ingenuous
Synonyms for ingenuous: artless and innocent. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for ingenuous
- artlessadjective, in the sense "characterized by an inability to mask your feelings"
- innocentadjective, in the sense "lacking in sophistication or worldliness"
All two are filed under ingenuous's own senses, one synonym per sense, each read by a human before it shipped.
characterized by an inability to mask your feelings
An ingenuous admission of responsibility.
The true synonym
artless
Same sentence, swapped: An artless admission of responsibility.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- disingenuous
- sappy
- budding
lacking in sophistication or worldliness
His ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it.
The true synonym
innocent
Same sentence, swapped: His innocent explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- explicit
- downright
- transparent
Where ingenuous turns up in the game
ingenuous is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where ingenuous is the trap
- disingenuousadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is artful, in the sense "not straightforward or candid", and ingenuous is on the board beside it.
- innocentadjective, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is guiltless, in the sense "free from evil or guilt", with ingenuous sitting one tile away.
Play ingenuous
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ingenuous reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other qualities words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ingenuous carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.