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- Dictionaryingenious/ɪnˈdʒiːnɪəs/
adjective
- 1. (of a person) clever, original, and inventive: "he was ingenious enough to overcome the limited budget"
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Ingenious means very intelligent and skilful, or skilfully made or planned and involving new ideas and methods. Learn more about the word, its synonyms and how to use it in sentences with Cambridge Dictionary.
Something ingenious shows creativity and inventiveness. If someone compares you to Einstein, they're implying that you, too, are ingenious.
1. : having or showing an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving. an ingenious detective. 2. : marked by originality, resourcefulness, and cleverness in conception or execution. an ingenious contraption. 3. obsolete : showing or calling for intelligence, aptitude, or discernment. ingeniously adverb. ingeniousness noun. Synonyms.
Ingenious means very intelligent and skillful, or skilfully made or planned and involving new ideas and methods. Learn more about this adjective, its synonyms, and how to use it in sentences with Cambridge Dictionary.
ingenious means “characterized by cleverness” or “cleverly inventive,” as in contriving new explanations or methods: an ingenious device; ingenious designers. ingenuous means “candid” or “innocent”: an ingenuous and sincere statement.
Learn the meaning, pronunciation and usage of the adjective ingenious, which means very suitable for a particular purpose and resulting from clever new ideas. See examples, synonyms and word origin.
Learn the meaning of ingenious, an adjective that describes someone or something with great mental ability, originality, or inventiveness. See synonyms, antonyms, origin, and examples of ingenious in sentences.
ingenious means “characterized by cleverness” or “cleverly inventive,” as in contriving new explanations or methods: an ingenious device; ingenious designers. ingenuous means “candid” or “innocent”: an ingenuous and sincere statement; a bully with the ingenuous eyes of a choirboy.
Learn the meaning of ingenious, a word that describes something very clever and involving new ideas, methods, or equipment. Find out how to pronounce it, use it in sentences, and translate it into other languages.
ingenious means clever and inventive, especially in planning or creating something. Learn how to use this adjective with examples from the corpus and the origin of the word.
