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Synonyms for ingenious
ɪnˈdʒin yəsin·ge·nious

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English Synonyms and Antonyms2.0 / 2 votes

  1. ingenious

    Clever, as used in England, especially implies an aptitude for study or learning, and for excellent tho not preeminent mental achievement. The early New England usage as implying simple and weak good nature has largely affected the use of the word throughout the United States, where it has never been much in favor. Smart, indicating dashing ability, is now coming to have a suggestion of unscrupulousness, similar to that of the word sharp, which makes its use a doubtful compliment. The discriminating use of such words as able, gifted, talented, etc., is greatly preferable to an excessive use of the word clever. Compare ACUMEN; ASTUTE; POWER.

    Synonyms:
    able, adroit, apt, bright, capable, clever, dexterous, expert, gifted, happy, intellectual, intelligent, keen, knowing, quick, quick-witted, sharp, skilful, smart, talented

    Antonyms:
    awkward, bungling, clumsy, dull, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, senseless, slow, stupid, thick-headed, witless

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 2 votes

  1. ingenious

    Synonyms:
    skillful, adept, clever, inventive, ready, frank, sincere

    Antonyms:
    unskillful, slow, uninventive, unready

Princeton's WordNet3.3 / 3 votes

  1. clever, cunning, ingeniousadjective

    showing inventiveness and skill

    "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem"

    Synonyms:
    tricksy, canny, clever, cunning, cagy, slick, sly, cute, cagey, wily, apt, knavish, crafty, guileful, dodgy, tricky, foxy

    Antonyms:
    maladroit

Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 1 vote

  1. ingeniousadjective

    Synonyms:
    inventive, gifted, able, sagacious, clever, bright

  2. ingeniousadjective

    Synonyms:
    that shows invention, exhibiting ingenuity

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. ingeniousadjective

    Synonyms:
    inventive, resourceful

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "ingenious":

    resourceful, crafty, clever, smart, inventive, imaginative

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How to use ingenious in a sentence?

  1. Pfoofy Solar manager Achoge:

    We were awarded $100,000 by the United States African Development Fund and Power Africa for the ingenious innovation. It is this money that we are now using to upscale the solar project.

  2. Sir Arthur Helps:

    Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.

  3. Andrew Orwig:

    This is a little more ingenious than most of the schemes, unfortunately, though, this preys on people who are uninformed and perhaps not well educated.

  4. Prince CharlesPrince Charles:

    The only sad thing for me was not being able to go further into other parts of Nigeria, it is such a vast country and obviously there are so many other states and interesting areas. I know many are facing different challenges and other opportunities, so it was a pity not being able to do that, but otherwise it's always marvellous coming here because people are so friendly. I'm always intrigued by the way so many of these young, for instance, are developing really interesting ideas that they can turn into businesses and things like that, helping to tackle some of the real issues we face, particularly around the environment and waste and goodness knows what else. Very ingenious characters.

  5. Ambrose Bierce:

    Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.


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