Meanings
comparative more ingenuine · superlative most ingenuine
- False, not genuine or unauthentic.
This description of the female therapist may have been a transferential distortion, an accurate reading of an ingenuine therapeutic stance, or both.
1993, Sam Kirscher, Working with Adult Incest Survivors: The Healing Journey, page 811 more example
Yet those accomplishments may well be forged, that is, a bit ingenuine, since, as our films must inevitably do, they leave the very forces of repression intact […]
1995, J. P. Telotte, Replications: A Robotic History of the Science Fiction Film, page 164
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Italic*n̥-
- Latinin-
- Middle Englishin-
- Englishin-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
- Proto-Italic*genos
- Latingenus
- Latingenuīnus
- Englishgenuine
- Englishingenuine
From in- + genuine. Piecewise doublet of ungenuine.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish epäaito, falski
- epäaitofalse, not genuine or authentic
- falskifalse, not genuine or authentic
German falsch, gefälscht
- falschfalse, not genuine or authentic
- gefälschtfalse, not genuine or authentic
- nicht echtfalse, not genuine or authentic
- unechtfalse, not genuine or authentic
- nicht authentischfalse, not genuine or authentic
- unwahrhaftigfalse, not genuine or authentic
- unaufrichtigfalse, not genuine or authentic
Turkish yapay, yapmacık
- yapayfalse, not genuine or authentic
- yapmacıkfalse, not genuine or authentic
- sahtefalse, not genuine or authentic
Cite this entry
ingenuine. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingenuine
“ingenuine.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingenuine. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ingenuine,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ingenuine.
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