Ingenuous vs Obvious - What's the difference?
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Naive and trusting.
Demonstrating childlike simplicity.
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Unsophisticated; simple.
Unable to mask one's feelings.
Straightforward, candid, open, and frank.
Easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
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Ingenuous is a related term of obvious.
As adjectives the difference between ingenuous and obvious
is that ingenuous is naive and trusting while obvious is easily discovered, seen, or understood; self-explanatory.ingenuous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- "Do you mean to say you didn't leave your wife for another woman?"
- "Of course not."
- "On your word of honour?"
- I don't know why I asked for that. It was very ingenuous of me.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* disingenuousUsage notes
Do not confuse with ingenious.obvious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Down towns, passage=It is not obvious , to economists anyway, that cities should exist at all. Crowds of people mean congestion and costly land and labour. But there are also well-known advantages to bunching up. When transport costs are sufficiently high a firm can spend more money shipping goods to clusters of consumers than it saves on cheap land and labour.}}