undesigning
undesigning adjective: having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; ingenuous.
Adjective
undesigning (comparative more undesigning, superlative most undesigning)
- Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; ingenuous.
- Cecilia, […] finding him gay and easy, general in his conversation, and undesigning in his looks, soon recovered from her embarrassment, and passed the rest of the day without restraint or uneasiness.1782, Frances Burney, chapter 9, in Cecilia, volume 2, pages 118–119
Synonyms of undesigning
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- green
- guileless
- ingenuous
- innocent
- jejune
- Panglossian
- Panglossic
- quaint
- simple
- simple-hearted
- simple-minded
- starry-eyed
- unaffected
- unpretentious
- unsophisticated
- untested
- unworldly
- wide-eyed
- immature
- born yesterday
- wet behind the ears
- virgin
- actual
- authentic
- bona fide
- genuine
- legit
- legitimate
- lubish
- non-fake
Forms of undesigning
| comparative | more undesigning |
|---|---|
| superlative | most undesigning |
Origin of undesigning
From un- + designing.
Words formed from undesigning
Questions about undesigning
- What does undesigning mean?
- Undesigning means having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; ingenuous.
- What part of speech is undesigning?
- Undesigning is an adjective.
Words near undesigning in the dictionary
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