Ingenious Definition

ĭn-jēnyəs
adjective
Having genius; having great mental ability.
Webster's New World
Marked by or exhibiting originality or inventiveness.
An ingenious solution to the problem.
American Heritage
Clever, resourceful, original, and inventive.
Webster's New World
Having genius; brilliant.
American Heritage
Made or done in a clever or original way.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Ingenious

  • From Middle French ingénieux, from Old French engenious, from Latin ingeniosus (“endowed with good natural capacity, gifted with genius”), from ingenium (“innate or natural quality, natural capacity, genius”), from in (“in”) + gignere (“to produce”), Old Latin genere. See also engine.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French ingenios from Latin ingeniōsus from ingenium inborn talent genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Ingenious Sentence Examples

  • This ingenious device originated in America.

  • This ingenious operation widens the track at the expense of an unimportant fraction of its length.

  • Although his making religion the sole factor of this evolution was a perversion of the historical facts, the book was so consistent throughout, so full of ingenious ideas, and written in so striking a style, that it ranks as one of the masterpieces of the French language in the 19th century.

  • But he is always ingenious, often witty, and nobody has carried farther than he the harmony of diction, sometimes marred by an affectation of symmetry and an excessive use of antithesis.

  • All remaining impurities, including the excess of oxygen, can then be taken out of the gas by Sir James Dewar's ingenious method of absorption with charcoal cooled in liquid air.

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