Definition of Ingenious

1. Adjective. Showing inventiveness and skill. "An ingenious solution to the problem"

Exact synonyms: Clever, Cunning
Similar to: Adroit
Derivative terms: Cleverness, Ingeniousness, Ingenuity

Definition of Ingenious

1. a. 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.

Definition of Ingenious

1. Adjective. Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent. ¹

2. Adjective. Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived. ¹

3. Adjective. Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ingenious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ingenious

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ingendered
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ingenders
ingener
ingenerability
ingenerable
ingenerably
ingenerate
ingeneration
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ingeniosity
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ingeniousnesses
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ingenuine
ingenuities
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ingenuitous

Literary usage of Ingenious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
""VERY Ingenious AND NEW" Says THOMAS A. EDISON of THE SILENT BULLET The Adventures of Craig Kennedy, Scientific Detective. By ARTHUR B. REEVE When THOMAS A. ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"(186) A just analogy would seem to countenance the opinion of an ingenious historian,(l87) that the free and tributary citizens did not surpass the number ..."

3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"190, concludes as follows:—"It is already possible, by ingenious optical contrivances, to throw stereoscopic photographs of people on screens in full view ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"In this, by means of an ingenious emendation, he reconciled the apparently conflicting statements of Liry and Polybius respecting the legion. ..."

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