Definitions
showing inventiveness and skill
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn’t even know I had.”
“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.”
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