Something ingenious shows creativity and inventiveness. If someone compares you to Einstein, they're implying that you, too, are ingenious.
Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations;
Adjective S.
showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem"
Adjective S.
skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends; "cool prudence and sensitive selfishness along with quick perception of what is possible--these distinguish an adroit politician"; "came up with a clever story"; "an ingenious press agent"; "an ingeni
Adjective S.
(used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an invent
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.
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.
a.
Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious
reply.
a.
Mental; intellectual.
Ingenious
A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war.
Thou, king, send out For torturers ingenious.
The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to trouble themselves.2.
Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill.3.
A course of learning and ingenious studies.
Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations;
Usage Examples
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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Other Usage ExamplesI think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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