Definition of ingenious Ingenious
/ɪnʤiˈnjʌs/ - [injeenyus] - in•gen•ious
We found 9 definitions of ingenious from 4 different sources.
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What does ingenious mean?
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| ingenious - showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem" | ||
| clever, cunning | ||
| adroit quick or skillful or adept in action or thought; "an exceptionally adroit pianist"; "an adroit technician"; "his adroit replies to hecklers won him many followers"; "an adroit negotiator" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ingenious (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. - ingenious (a.)
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. - ingenious (a.)
Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply. - ingenious (a.)
Mental; intellectual.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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ingenious
in-jē′ni-us, adj. of good natural abilities: skilful in inventing: witty.—adv. Ingē′niously.—ns. Ingē′niousness, Ingenū′ity, power of ready invention: facility in combining ideas: curiousness in design; Ingē′nium, bent of mind. [L. ingeniosus—ingenium, mother-wit, from in, and gen, root of gignĕre, to beget.]
