ingenious

Meaning

1. Displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.
2. Characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done.
3. Showing originality or sagacity; witty.

Synonyms

clever

skilful

intelligent

inventive

smart

skillful

resourceful

bright

cunning

sharp

sharp-witted

creative

imaginative

keen

shrewd

brilliant

fly

✈️

genial

brainy

perspicacious

elaborate

expert

intricate

subtle

talented

quick-witted

exquisite

witty

cute

of genius

sagacious

artful

hardheaded

incisive

innovational

inspired

intellectual

judicious

knowing

miraculous

mordacious

mordant

noetic

parlous

peaked

peaky

perceptive

piercing

pointed

politic

pretty

prodigious

proficient

pungent

rare

ready

resourcefully

salty

sapient

shifty

shrill

slick

sly

soul

spiffy

spiky

spirit

spiritual

stiff

strange

strident

subtile

supernatural

tart

trenchant

workmanlike

acuate

fulgurating

intelligence

possessed of genius

able

skilled in an art

acerb

acerbic

active

acute

adroit

alert

apt

awake

beaked

biting

bold

cagey

cagy

canny

capable

clear

complex

complicated

crisp

cutting

daedal

deft

dexterous

discriminative

divine

efficacious

fanciful

fantastic

gifted

great

handiness

Translations

ingénieux

ingenioso

geniaal

genial

inventivo

astucieux

findig

inventif

erfinderisch

ingeniös

Hyphenated as

in‧ge‧nious

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɪnˈd͡ʒiːnjəs/

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ingénieux, from Old French engenious, from Latin ingeniōsus (“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.

Sentences

If not true , it is very ingenious .