| Main Entry: | ingenuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | honest, trustful |
Synonyms: |
artless, candid, childlike, frank, green*, guileless, innocent, like a babe in the woods, naive, natural, open, outspoken, plain, simple, sincere, square, straightforward, trusting, unaffected, unartful, unartificial, undisguised, unreserved, unschooled, unsophisticated, unstudied, up front |
| Notes: | ingenious is 'clever, brilliant'; ingenuous is 'frank, candid' or 'naïve' ingenuous means 'naïve, easily deceived, unsuspecting; foolish' - and disingenuous means 'calculating, deceptive' |
Antonyms: |
deceitful, dishonest, sly |
| Main Entry: | spontaneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impulsive, willing |
Synonyms: |
ad-lib, automatic, break loose, casual, down, extemporaneous, extempore, free, free spirited, from the hip, impetuous, impromptu, improvised, inevitable, instinctive, involuntary, irresistible, natural, off top of head, off-the-cuff, offhand, simple, unartful, unavoidable, unbidden, uncompelled, unconscious, unconstrained, uncontrived, uncontrolled, unforced, unintentional, unplanned, unpremediated, unprompted, unsophisticated, unstudied, up front, voluntary |
Antonyms: |
deliberate, intended, planned, premeditated |
| Main Entry: | unskillful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not skilled |
Synonyms: |
amateurish, awkward, clumsy, gauche, inapt, inept, inexperienced, inexpert, maladroit, menial, unartful, unskilled |
Antonyms: |
skillful |
| Main Entry: | unskillful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
unskillful, adrift, ambilevous, ambisinistrous, at fault, awkward, blunderly, bungling, clodpolish, clumsy, cow-handed, disqualified, foolish, gauche, gawky, giddy, green, heavy-handed, ill-advised, ill-conducted, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-imagined, ill-judged, ill-qualified, inactive, inapt, incompetent, inconsiderate, inexperienced, inexpert, infelicitous, inhabile, jackleg, kitthoge, left-handed, lubberly, maladroit, misadvised, misconducted, misguided, out of practice, penny-wise and pound-foolish, quackish, raw, rusty, shiftless, slatternly, slovenly, stupid, unaccustomed, unadvised, unapt, unconversant, unfit, unguided, unhandy, uninitiated, unqualified, unstatesmanlike, unteachable, untractable, untrained, unused, wild
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