B1🧠 Personality
Italian word
ingenuo
naive, innocent, gullible — lacking worldly experience
Looks like
ingenious
clever, original, inventive
⚠️ The trap
MAJOR FALSE FRIEND. 'Ingenuo' = naive/gullible. 'Ingenious' = brilliantly clever. The correct Italian for ingenious is 'ingegnoso'. Never confuse these.
To say "clever, original, inventive" in Italian:
ingegnoso (for ingenious)
"ingenuo" in English means:
naive, innocent, gullible — lacking worldly experience
Example
"Era così ingenuo da credere a tutto quello che gli dicevano."
"He was so naive that he believed everything they told him."
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