ingenue

1. (theater, film) A dramatic role of such a woman; an actress playing such a role.Examples: "The intelligent and talented blonde who was fluent in English, French and Spanish was interested in art and joined a local theater group to work on set designs but wound up on stage playing an ingenue in Liliom and was spotted by director Vincente Minnelli."

2. (rare) Misspelling of ingenu.Examples: "Mr. Acheson's failure as Secretary of State ... has been an inability to understand people or to be understood by them."; "I cannot resist citing, slightly out of context, another bit of Baudelaire: "Satan s'est fait ingénu" (Satan has made himself into an ingenue [Oeuvres Completes 640])"; "America why callow ingenue bile?"alt-ofmisspellingrare