About The Word Ingenious
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What's The Definition Of Ingenious?
[adj] showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem"
[adj] skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends; "cool prudence and sensitive selfishness along with quick perception of what is possible--these distinguish an adroit politician"; "came up with a clever story"; "an ingenious press agent"; "an ingenious scheme" [adj] (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics" Synonyms | Synonyms for Ingenious: adroit | artful | clever | creative | cunning | imaginative | inventive | originative Related Terms | Find terms related to Ingenious: acute | adept | adroit | apt | arch | artful | artistic | astute | authoritative | bravura | bright | brilliant | cagey | canny | clean | clever | conceptive | conceptual | coordinated | crack | crackerjack | crafty | creative | cunning | cute | daedal | Daedalian | deceitful | deep | deep-laid | deft | demiurgic | designing | dexterous | dextrous | diplomatic | esemplastic | excellent | expert | fancy | fecund | feline | fertile | foxy | germinal | gifted | good | goodish | graceful | guileful | handy | ideational | ideative | imaginative | innovational | innovative | insidious | inspired | inventive | keen | knowing | Machiavellian | Machiavellic | magisterial | masterful | masterly | neat | no mean | notional | on the ball | original | originative | pawky | politic | pregnant | productive | professional | proficient | prolific | quick | quite some | ready | resourceful | scheming | seminal | serpentine | shaping | sharp | shifty | shrewd | skilled | skillful | slick | slim | slippery | sly | smart | smooth | snaky | sneaky | some | sophistical | statesmanlike | stealthy | strategic | stylish | subtile | subtle | supple | tactful | tactical | talented | teeming | the compleat | the complete | trickish | tricksy | tricky | virtuoso | visioned | vulpine | wary | well-done | wily | workmanlike See Also | Ingenious In Webster's Dictionary \In*gen"ious\, a. [L. ingeniosus, fr. ingenium innate
or natural quality, natural capacity, genius: cf. F.
ing['e]nieux. See {Engine}.]
1. Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful
or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to
form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic.
A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war.
--Hakluyt.
Thou, king, send out For torturers ingenious.
--Shak.
The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to
trouble themselves. --Sir W.
Temple.
2. Proseeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by,
genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or
mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an
ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc.
Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill. --Cowper.
3. Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious
reply.
4. Mental; intellectual. [Obs.]
A course of learning and ingenious studies. --Shak.
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