Ingenious vs. Ingenuity
Difference Between Ingenious and Ingenuity
Ingenious➦
Having great inventive skill and imagination
an ingenious negotiator.
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Ingenuity➦
the quality of being clever, original, and inventive
considerable ingenuity must be employed in writing software
the ingenuity of Haydn's scoring
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Ingenious➦
Marked by or exhibiting originality or inventiveness
an ingenious solution to the problem.
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Ingenuity➦
Inventive skill or imagination; cleverness.
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Ingenious➦
(Obsolete) Having genius; brilliant.
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Ingenuity➦
An ingenious or imaginative contrivance.
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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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Ingenuity➦
(Obsolete) Ingenuousness.
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Ingenious➦
Of a thing: characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done.
That is an ingenious model of the atom.
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Ingenuity➦
The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
Poverty is the mother of ingenuity.
Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.
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Ingenious➦
Showing originality or sagacity; witty.
He sent me an ingenious reply to an email.
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Ingenuity➦
Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness
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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.
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Ingenuity➦
The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.
All the means which human ingenuity has contrived.
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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.
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Ingenuity➦
Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.
He gives . . . To artist ingenuity and skill.
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Ingenious➦
Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.
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Ingenuity➦
Openness of heart; ingenuousness.
The stings and remorses of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them.
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Ingenious➦
Mental; intellectual.
A course of learning and ingenious studies.
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Ingenuity➦
the power of creative imagination
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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
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Ingenuity➦
the property of being ingenious;
a plot of great ingenuity
the cleverness of its design
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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
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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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