ingenious

Modifies a noun

• contrivance: The width of the bridge was increased by an ingenious contrivance of the late David Stephenson, Esq. architect.
• contraption: Wallace meets every challenge in life by inventing some ingenious contraption in the eccentric English tradition of Heath Robinson and Roland Emmett.
• gadget: The kitchen craft avocado slicer is just the sort of ingenious gadget you'll wonder how you ever lived without!
• invention: Wilkins was always bringing in ingenious inventions he knew of in reality.
• inventor: Violet is an ingenious inventor in an improvising Heath Robinson mode.
• device: These ingenious devices are just the thing to keep your bunnies off of the furniture!

Modifying Another Word

• rather: Kai has a rather ingenious file update distribution system.
• equally: The rest facilities are equally ingenious: outwardly far too modern but conceivable in a world where magic really works.
• quite: For Superbase, Simon & Tom devised a simpler method of working, which is quite ingenious - they write the file backward!
• particularly: He devised a particularly ingenious explanation for why systems tend toward equilibrium.
• very: It includes a very ingenious set of folding pliers.
• often: House owners are often ingenious in their adaptation of pillboxes.

Used with adjective complement

• become: But as criminals become more sophisticated we need to become more ingenious at outwitting them.
• seem: To smoke and expect providence does seem quite ingenious.
• sound: This again sounds ingenious, but is quite untenable.