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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--ingenue This week's theme: words from theater. ingenue (AN-zhuh-noo, -nyoo) noun 1. The role of an artless, innocent girl. 2. An actress who plays such a role. [From French ingénue (guileless), from Latin ingenuus (free-born).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Ida Lupino shed her ingenue image by gunning for hard-edged roles." Carrie Rickey; First Heyday of Gay; The Philadelphia Inquirer; Jun 7, 2007. X-Bonus We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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