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ingenue

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɑnʒənu/Part of speech nounSorted eeginnuStarts with IEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play

Word origin

Borrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).

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  • Near-synonym: girl next door
  • Mr. Acheson's failure as Secretary of State ... has been an inability to understand people or to be understood by them.
  • I cannot resist citing, slightly out of context, another bit of Baudelaire: "Satan s'est fait ingénu" (Satan has made himself into an ingenue [Oeuvres Completes 640])

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