Ingenious vs. Ingenuitive — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ingenious and Ingenuitive
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Ingenious
Having great inventive skill and imagination
An ingenious negotiator.
Ingenuitive
(nonstandard) Possessing ingenuity; ingenious.
Ingenious
Marked by or exhibiting originality or inventiveness
An ingenious solution to the problem.
Ingenious
(Obsolete) Having genius; brilliant.
Ingenious
Of a person: Displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.
This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn’t even know I had.
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Ingenious
Of a thing: characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done.
That is an ingenious model of the atom.
Ingenious
Showing originality or sagacity; witty.
He sent me an ingenious reply to an email.
Ingenious
Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic.
A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war.
Thou, king, send outFor torturers ingenious.
The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to trouble themselves.
Ingenious
Proceeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc.
Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill.
Ingenious
Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.
Ingenious
Mental; intellectual.
A course of learning and ingenious studies.
Ingenious
(used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action;
An imaginative use of material
The invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman
An ingenious device
Had an inventive turn of mind
Inventive ceramics
Ingenious
Skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends;
Cool prudence and sensitive selfishness along with quick perception of what is possible--these distinguish an adroit politician
Came up with a clever story
An ingenious press agent
An ingenious scheme
Ingenious
Showing inventiveness and skill;
A clever gadget
The cunning maneuvers leading to his success
An ingenious solution to the problem
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