Word of the Day:
ingenious
What It Means
Of a person, displaying genius, ingenuity or brilliance; inventive.
Of a thing, characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done.
Showing originality or sagacity; characterized by ingenuity; witty.
This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn’t even know I had.
Ingenious in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
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.
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