ingenues

noun

variants or ingénues
plural of ingenue
as in angels
an innocent girl or young woman In her latest film she plays the part of an ingenue.

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Recent Examples of ingenues Meanwhile, Bullock and Kidman have graduated from white-hot ingenues to permanent legends. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026 When the Television Academy announced its nominations in July, the story wasn’t about the ingenues. — Clayton Davis, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026 Actresses who are no longer ingenues make striking appearances, not only in dramas, but also at formal events. — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 6 July 2026 Our best ingenues would queue to star as Dora and Nora. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026 Seen on the likes of Pamela Anderson, Ariana Grande, and most recently, Vera Wang, the micro bang was first popularized in the 1950s by film ingenues like Audrey Hepburn. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 6 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ingenues
  1. angels
  2. virgins
  3. greenhorns
  4. newbies
  5. innocents
  6. fledglings
  7. colts
Noun
  • My daughter Célestine asked me one morning whether there were angels in our wine cellar.
    — Peter Hahn, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Though Pachinko featured more angels than demons, Lee still convincingly inhabited Koh Hansu, the gangster and groomer.
    — Sanjena Sathian, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of angels
Noun
  • Bridget reads Lizzie the tale of Countess Elizabeth Báthory of Ecsed (also portrayed by Krieps), a 16th-century Hungarian noblewoman said to have bled beautiful virgins to bathe in their blood and preserve her beauty.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Public health stats show maybe 5%-10% of those getting married in the United States are virgins at the altar.
    — Lauren Green, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
Definition of virgins
Noun
  • Flecks of mica and pyrite and who knows what, but only fools and greenhorns mistake it for gold.
    — John Archibald, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Definition of greenhorns
Noun
  • Three newbies went in there, and two of them came out with punishments.
    — McKinley Franklin, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Kring was well aware, too, that entering the comic-book space was something genre newbies shouldn't take lightly.
    — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of newbies
Noun
  • On that terrible day, millions of Americans witnessed airplanes flying into buildings, people jumping off skyscrapers, and the Twin Towers collapsing with thousands of innocents inside.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of innocents
Noun
  • The fledglings of the bird, which is native to New Zealand, were bred this year.
    — Adela Suliman, NBC news, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Northern cardinals may flirt over lunch, with a male passing a choice bite to a female, while fledglings flap, gape and beg their parents for a snack.
    — Lauren Paige Richeson, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of fledglings
Noun
  • These two colts were born roughly a month apart in the winter of 2024.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026
  • For every race that has colts contending for greatness and notoriety, there is a sister race for those wonderful three-year-old fillies.
    — Danny Brewer, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Definition of colts

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“Ingenues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ingenues. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.

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