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    ingenious
    /ɪnˈdʒiːnɪəs/

    adjective

    • 1. (of a person) clever, original, and inventive: "he was ingenious enough to overcome the limited budget"

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  2. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishINGENIOUS | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    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.

  3. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › ingeniousIngenious Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    Learn the meaning of ingenious, a word that describes someone or something that has or shows an unusual aptitude for discovering, inventing, or contriving. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related articles.

  4. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryINGENIOUS | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

    Ingenious means very intelligent and skillful, 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.

  5. www.dictionary.com › browse › ingeniousINGENIOUS Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

    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

  6. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › ingeniousIngenious - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

    Something ingenious shows creativity and inventiveness. If someone compares you to Einstein, they're implying that you, too, are ingenious. Ingenious comes from the Latin words for inborn talent.

  7. www.thefreedictionary.com › ingeniousIngenious - definition of ingenious by The Free Dictionary

    Ingenious means clever or original in inventing or creating something. It is not the same as ingenuous, which means candid or innocent. See examples, translations and usage notes.

  8. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › english › ingeniousingenious adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and...

    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.