2020-10-19
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด I – Ingenious – ingenuous – naïve
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ออกเสียง Ingenious = ‘in-JEEN-yuhs’
ออกเสียง ingenuous = ‘
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WORDS OFTEN CONFUSED WITH INGENIOUS
Ingenious and ingenuous arose from the same Latin root
meaning “to beget, give birth” and once had the same meaning.
They are now distinct from each other and are notsynonyms.
Ingenious means “characterized by cleverness” or“cleverly inventive,”
as in contriving new explanations or methods:
an ingenious device; ingenious designers.
Both ingenious and ingenuous
originally meant “of honorable or free birth, noble in character; open, frank, candid,” senses that exist in Latin. Since the second half of the 17th century, ingenuous has acquired the additional sense “naively open, innocently frank”:
an ingenuous and sincere statement; a thug with the ingenuous eyes of a choirboy.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Ingenious – ingenuous – naïve
Ingenious means “inventive,” “resourceful,” “talented,” “imaginative.”
Ingenuous means “naïve,” “frank,” “unsophisticated,” “artless.”
“Alex suggested solution is Ingeunious.”
“She is an Ingenuous little child.”
Naïve (correctly spelled with a dieresis over the i
but also considered correct without this mark or spelled naif)
has much the same meaning of Ingenuous.
It is applied to persons who reveal natural simplicity, artlessness, and innocence.
Naïve usually suggests traits that are amusingto the user of the word
but not to the person so described.
Probably no one would like to be Diane in a statement
such as “Diane is so naïve she believes everything her boy-friend tells her.”
