ingenuously

1. 1.

   in an ingenuous manner

   “she answered the judge's questions artlessly”

   Synonymsartlessly

Questions about ingenuously

What does ingenuously mean?

ingenuously means "in an ingenuous manner".

How many syllables are in ingenuously?

ingenuously has 5 syllables: in-ge-nu-ou-sly. The stress falls on "nu".

What is another word for ingenuously?

Close synonyms include artlessly. 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.

Is ingenuously a common word?

ingenuously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.