undesigning

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ designing.

Adjective

undesigning (comparative more undesigning, superlative most undesigning)

1. (now rare) Having no artful, ulterior, or fraudulent purpose; sincere; artless; ingenuous.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:naive, Thesaurus:genuine

   • 1782, Frances Burney, chapter 9, in Cecilia, volume 2, pages 118–119:

     Cecilia, […] finding him gay and easy, general in his conversation, and undesigning in his looks, soon recovered from her embarrassment, and passed the rest of the day without restraint or uneasiness.