B1🧠 Personality
Italian word
ingegnoso
ingenious, inventive, clever at solving problems
Looks like
ingenious
showing cleverness in inventing or creating
⚠️ The trap
True cognate of 'ingenious'. The trap is mixing it up with 'ingenuo' (naive). Ingegnoso = smart/inventive. Ingenuo = naive.
To say "showing cleverness in inventing or creating" in Italian:
ingegnoso (true cognate of ingenious)
"ingegnoso" in English means:
ingenious, inventive, clever at solving problems
Example
"Ha trovato una soluzione ingegnosa al problema."
"He found an ingenious solution to the problem."
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