ingenuine
/ɪnˈd͡ʒɛnjuːɪn̩/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
false, not genuine or unauthentic.
Example Sentences
- "This description of the female therapist may have been a transferential distortion, an accurate reading of an ingenuine therapeutic stance, or both."
- "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 […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os Proto-Italic *genos Latin genus Latin -ūs Latin genuīnusbor. English genuine English ingenuine From in- + genuine.
Inflected Forms
more ingenuine (comparative)
most ingenuine (superlative)