Synonyms for ingenious
ɪnˈdʒin yəsin·ge·nious

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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 AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. ingenious

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

   Antonyms:
   unskillful, slow, uninventive, unready

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.3 / 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 SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. ingeniousadjective

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

2. ingeniousadjective

   Synonyms:
   that shows invention, exhibiting ingenuity

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1. ingeniousadjective

   Synonyms:
   inventive, resourceful

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1. List of paraphrases for "ingenious":

   resourceful, crafty, clever, smart, inventive, imaginative

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1. Zhang Hanwen:

   This isn't to say we conclusively disproved any human involvement, in our scenario, modern humans settled on each landmass after proboscidean extinction risk had already escalated. An ingenious, highly adaptable social predator like our species could be the perfect black swan occurrence to deliver the coup de grâce.

2. Ambrose Bierce:

   An inventor is a person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

3. W. Somerset Maugham:

   Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

4. Britney Schmidt:

   The reason we chose Europa Clipper is because the clipper ships were fast, American boats at the time that they were first used, when most shipping was achieved with large, slow vessels, we liked clipper for that reason, an ingenious way to solve the Europa mission problem : How do you get a long-lived mission at Europa with global coverage but not be in the radiation environment ?

5. James Joyce:

   Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.