Ingenious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Marked by inventive skill and imagination.
  • adj. Having or arising from an inventive or cunning mind; clever: an ingenious scheme. See Synonyms at clever.
  • adj. Obsolete Having genius; brilliant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.
  • adj. Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.
  • adj. Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations.
  • adj. Proceeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism
  • adj. Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.
  • adj. Mental; intellectual.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Possessing inventive genius or faculty; apt in inventing, contriving, or constructing; skilful in the use of things or words: as, an ingenious mechanic; an ingenious author.
  • Mentally bright or clever; witty; conversable.
  • Marked or characterized by inventive genius; displaying or proceeding from skill in contrivance or construction; witty or clever in form or spirit; well conceived; apt: as, an ingenious machine; an ingenious process or performance; ingenious criticism.
  • Manifesting or requiring mental brightness or cleverness; intellectual; improving.
  • Ingenuous.
  • Synonyms Inventive, bright, acute, constructive. See genius.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. showing inventiveness and skill
  • Equivalent
    adroit   
    Antonym
    helpless    barren   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    witty    shrewd    adroit    keen    sagacious    mental    intellectual    inventive    deviceful    subtle   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    genius    heterogeneous   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clever    practical    subtle    shrewd    skilful    amuse    logical