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The related noun ingénue refers to a young, inexperienced person.The adjective disingenuous is more commonly used than ingenuous and means insincere or falsely ingenuous—someone who’s described as disingenuous might be faking naiveté.Once upon a time, ingenious was used to mean ingenuous, but this is no longer the case.To remember the difference, remember that ingenious sounds like genius and is used in similar contexts—an ingenious idea might also be described as a genius idea. Just don’t forget the -ous ending in ingenious.The middle of ingenuous sounds like the beginning of genuine, and an ingenuous person is usually a genuine one—nothing about them is insincere or intended to hide who they really are.Here’s an example of ingenuous and ingenious used correctly in a sentence.Example: The ingenuous inventor signed away the rights to his ingenious new creation without realizing it.Want to learn more? 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