ingenuine

not yet an actual word. incorrectly used when trying to describe something that is the opposite of "genuine." usually confused with "Ingenuous" which means "gullible" and "ingenuity" which means "inventive originality". it is best to use the word "DISINGENUOUS" when you are vying for the antonym of "genuine".

Ingenuine is not a word.

ingenuine by broccoli turpentine October 12, 2008

Ingenuine

Meaning: adj. Not genuine; false; not authentic. Normally associated with persons, behaviours and experiences rather than items.

Etymology: Contrary to popular belief (google the term for examples), this is in fact a word, and can be cited as far back as the 17th Century:

1675 R. Burthogge Cavsa Dei 352 'A many false, supposititious, and ingenuine' Writings.

Source: Oxford English Dictionary online.

The word can be made by attaching the prefix in- (a variant of un-) to the existing word 'genuine', in parallel to in- + sincere, in- + compatible, in- + valid and so on.

Although it may often be confused with 'ingenuous', this is a simple malapropism and does not affect the validity of the word.

1. Bob's offer to buy Bill a present was ingenuine.

2. Her smile was ingenuine.

3. The tourist attraction gives an ingenuine experience of life in the 1500s.

Ingenuine by badlydrawnfox March 3, 2012

ingenuine disadvantage

Getting fucked by Microsoft. Paying 599 EUR for the retail version of Windows Vista Ultimate, 460 EUR for the hardware upgrades needed to use it and getting that lovely "This copy of Microsoft Windows(R) is not genuine." box after two weeks' use.

Person 1: 'I paid 599 euros for this sh!t and got to use it just two weeks'
Person 2: 'That's just unfair'
Person 3: 'But that's Microsoft's Ingenuine Disadvantage'

ingenuine disadvantage by an4ljuggernaut December 14, 2008

Ungenuine 

Originating from South East Asia, the term was originally used as an antithesis to describe a person/friend who wasn't "Genuine".

ie) Someone who merely acts like a friend but has a constant hidden agenda. A friend who is ungenuine would likely not keep in touch over a period of time only to hit you up out of the blue because it turns out they actually need something from you.

Ungenuine can also be used to describe someone who treats women with disrespect, fools around with multiple women in a given sitting at a given location (usually an aggressive type), untrustworthy, is overly sensitive about jokes, and is otherwise not a person who the rest of the group is fond of.

1. "Man, Lin just hit me up. I havent heard from that guy forever, he told me he was gonna be in town next week and asked if he could crash for a few days. That guy is so ungenuine.."

2. "Don't invite Tony to your kegger, he's so ungenuine.. He never pitches to bring any booze and always invites like 50 randos.."

3. "My bunk-mate came home last night with a girl, woke me up and tried to kick me out of the room so he could bang her on the bottom bunk.. That guy is such an ungenuine POS."

Ungenuine by Some Mr. Montgomery July 27, 2013

African ingenuity 

Black excellence, original, creativity, imagination, innovation, and inventive.

African ingenuity built the pyramids by being able to move massive stone blocks across the desert by wetting the sand in front of a contraption built to pull the heavy objects.

African ingenuity by Shen Terrell March 29, 2017

Stoner Ingenuity 

The creative effort stoners put into the development and construction of various smoking devices. Without Stoner Ingenuity we would not have apple pipes or gravity bongs.

"Dude, I just made a pipe out of a tampon and some tin foil!"
"That's Stoner Ingenuity for you"

Stoner Ingenuity by Bobobobobobobobobo November 10, 2007

ingenue 

A stock character in opera, theater, and literature. She is a girl or young woman who is endearingly wholesome and innocent. Very similar to the girl next door.

She is generally portrayed as sweet, gentle, virtuous, beautiful, demure, with the wide-eyed innocence of a child and she is very often naive. She is often the victim of the libertine, whom she may have mistaken for the hero. Often she still lives with her parents, owing to her youth and naivete.
She is usually the foil for the dangerously seductive femme fatale.
She is often involved in a romantic subplot, usually with the boy next door and the romance is typically innocent and chaste.
The ingenue is typically played by a lyric soprano in opera and musicals.

The ingenue includes the following characters:

Joanna in Sweeney Todd
Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz
Giselle in Enchanted
Pollyanna
Snow White
Rapunzel
Cosette in Les Miserables
Sandy in Grease
Maria in West Side Story
Christine in Phantom of the Opera
Ophelia in Hamlet
Juliet in Romeo and Juliet
Ariel in The Little Mermaid
Belle in Beauty and the Beast
Penny in Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog
Mimi in La Boheme
Tatiana in Eugene Onegin

ingenue by Lorelili July 7, 2011