What does disingenuous mean?

disingenuous means "not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness".

How many syllables are in disingenuous?

disingenuous has 5 syllables: di-sin-gen-u-ous. The stress falls on "gen". In IPA it is /dɪsɪnˈdʒɛnjuəs/.

What is another word for disingenuous?

Close synonyms include artful. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of disingenuous?

The recorded antonyms are ingenuous.

Is disingenuous a common word?

disingenuous is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disingenuous?

1 word rhymes with disingenuous. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

Disingenuous — meaning and pronunciation

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness
“an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time”
“a disingenuous excuse”
Synonymsartful
Antonymsingenuous
Similardistorted

Questions about disingenuous

What does disingenuous mean?: disingenuous means "not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness".

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