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Definition of Ingenue

1. Noun. An actress who specializes in playing the role of an artless innocent young girl.

2. Noun. An artless innocent young girl (especially as portrayed on the stage).

3. Noun. The role of an innocent artless young woman in a play.

Definition of Ingenue

1. Noun. An innocent, unsophisticated, naïve, wholesome girl or young woman. ¹

2. Noun. A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role. ¹

3. Noun. (alternative spelling of ingenue) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ingenue

1. a naive young woman [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingenue

ingenerable ingenerably ingenerate ingeneration ingeners ingeniate ingeniosity ingenious ingeniously ingeniousness

ingeniousnesses ingenite ingenium ingeniums ingenu ingenue (current term) ingenues ingenui ingenuine ingenuities

ingenuitive ingenuitous ingenuity ingenuous ingenuously ingenuousness ingenuousnesses ingenus ingeny ingerminate

Literary usage of Ingenue

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Art of Playwriting: Being a Practical Treatise on the Elements of by Alfred Hennequin (1890)
"The characteristics of the ingenue are youth, simplicity, and artless innocence, ... The ingenue may have, and generally does have, opportunities for strong ..."

2. The Harvard Lampoon (1889)
"Miss ingenue.—That's because you will wear that unbecoming, heavy, ... Miss ingenue (getting back at him). — On the whole, I don't care to go to Beck for a ..."

3. Reminiscences by Matilda Betham-Edwards (1898)
"EUGENIE AND HER THURSDAYS—A WOULD-BE "ingenue" 1N WHITE MUSLIN—THE SENTIMENTAL TRIO—PARIS UNDER THE EMPIRE—PARISIAN LIFE A LA BALZAC DURING the following ..."

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