Definition: characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
Usage: an ingenuous admission of responsibility
Similar words: heart-to-heart, candid, open
Definition: openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness
Usage: his candid eyes; an open and trusting nature; a heart-to-heart talk
Similar words: undistorted
Definition: without alteration or misrepresentation
Usage: his judgment was undistorted by emotion
Definition: lacking in sophistication or worldliness
Usage: 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
Definition: marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience
Usage: a teenager's naive ignorance of life; the naive assumption that things can only get better; this naive simple creature with wide friendly eyes so eager to believe appearances