ingenuous

(a) characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
- an ingenuous admission of responsibility
artless,
(s) lacking in sophistication or worldliness
- a child's innocent stare
- his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it
innocent,

Synonyms

artless innocent

Antonyms

artful disingenuous

See also

naif naive sincere

Words of close approximity

ingenuously ingenuousness