ingenious
Syllables: in·ge·nious/ɪnˈd͡ʒiːnjəs/
ingenious adjective: of a person, displaying genius, ingenuity or brilliance; inventive.
Adjective
ingenious (comparative more ingenious, superlative most ingenious)
- Of a person, displaying genius, ingenuity or brilliance; inventive.
- This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn’t even know I had.
- Of a thing, characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done.
- That is an ingenious model of the atom.
- Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude, / protected from the circle of the moon / That pitches common things about.1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen”, in The Tower, page 32
- Synonyms:
- artful
- Showing originality or sagacity; characterized by ingenuity; witty.
- He sent me an ingenious reply to an email.
- I have scarcely recovered the surprise of the ingenious question, before I meet another surprise in the still more ingenious answer1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 147
ingenious meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
ingenious in Hindi
- ingenious, skilled, capable
- चतुर catur
ingenious in Tamil
- கூர் அறிவுடைய, கூர்மதியுடைய, சூழ்திறமிக்க, புனைதிறம் வல்ல, புனைத்திறம் வல்ல
ingenious in Marathi
- ingenious, inventive, imaginative, contriving, devising
- कल्पक kalpak
ingenious in Urdu
- ingenious
- ذہین zahīn
More languagesFewer languages
- ingenious in Bengali
- প্রতিভাশালী, উদ্ভাবনী, চতুর
- ingenious in Telugu
- చతుర catura, తంత్రవాది tantravādi
- ingenious in Malayalam
- നിർമ്മാണകൗശലനായ, സാമർത്ഥ്യമുള്ള, പടു, നിപുണം
- ingenious in Kannada
- ಕುಶಲ, ಜಾಣತನದ, ಚಮತ್ಕಾರದ, ಬುದ್ಧಿವಂತಿಕೆಯ
- ingenious in Sanskrit
- चतुर catura
- ingenious in Arabic
- عَبْقَرِيّ ʕabqariyy
Examples of ingenious in a sentence
- This throws the onus on freight operators' train planners to devise ingenious solutions to finding new paths.
- It was an ingenious idea—your own, in fact—to celebrate Sweet Blursday in the classic fashion.
- Another ingenious invention is the cellular shade that is raised from the bottom up.
Synonyms of ingenious
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Forms of ingenious
| comparative | more ingenious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most ingenious |
| alternative form (obsolete) | engenious |
Origin of ingenious
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.
Words formed from ingenious
Words that rhyme with ingenious
Questions about ingenious
- What does ingenious mean?
- Ingenious means of a person, displaying genius, ingenuity or brilliance; inventive.
- What is ingenious in Hindi?
- Ingenious in Hindi is चतुर (catur). See Ingenious meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is ingenious?
- Ingenious is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce ingenious?
- Ingenious is pronounced /ɪnˈd͡ʒiːnjəs/.
Words near ingenious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ingenious (page history and authors); चतुर (Hindi) (page history and authors); ingenious (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कल्पक (Marathi) (page history and authors); ذہین (Urdu) (page history and authors); Ingenious (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); చతుర (Telugu) (page history and authors); ingenious (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ingenious (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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