The young man was inexperienced, trusting, naive and ingenuous.
The word "ingenuous" would be used in a sentence like the word primitive. A example would be: "He told the truth because he was ingenuous." It can be also used for the phrase "ingenuous question".
She was getting tired of the child's constant need to ask ingenuous questions. The little girl was in fact ingenuous because she told the truth.
(not to be confused with ingenious, ingenuous means naive, frank, or candid)"In Billy Budd, Melville creates an innocent and ingenuous character.""New Orleans Saints fans have always appreciated the ingenuous nature of coach Sean Payton."
An ingenuous person says what she believes ,without any attempt to tailor the expression to the expected audience. Although he insisted he was telling the truth, the smirk on his face led me to think that his story was not ingenuous.
naive because ingenuous means innocent and unsuspecting naive is asynonymfor ingenuous.
Please review and edit the question; you do not want 'ingenuous', that is an adjective.
Naive or ingenuous (adj) - a naive or ingenuous person (noun)
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