ingenue
Plural: ingenues
Noun
- A naive, innocent, and unsophisticated young woman.
- an actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl
- an artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage)
- the role of an innocent artless young woman in a play
- An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman.
- A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.
- Misspelling of ingenu.
Examples
- The ingenuous player didn’t realize she was setting me up for a triple word score on Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French ingénue, the feminine form of ingénu (“guileless”), originally from the Latin ingenuus (“ingenuous”).
Scrabble Score: 8
ingenue: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordingenue: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ingenue: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
ingenue: valid Words With Friends Word