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Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
Henry W. Kendall

Meaning of "ingenious" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INGENIOUS

From Latin ingeniōsus, from ingenium natural ability.
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PRONUNCIATION OF INGENIOUS

ingenious  [ɪnˈdʒiːnjəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INGENIOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ingenious is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INGENIOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ingenuity

Ingenuity is the quality of being clever, original, and inventive, often in the process of applying ideas to solve problems or meet challenges. Ingenuity is the root Latin word for engineering. For example, the process of figuring out how to cross a mountain stream using a fallen log, building an aeroplane model from a sheet of paper, or starting a new company in a foreign culture all involve the exercising of ingenuity. Human ingenuity has led to various technological developments through applied science, and can also be seen in the development of new social organizations, institutions and relationships. Ingenuity involves the most complex human thought processes, bringing together our thinking and acting both individually and collectively to take advantage of opportunities and/or overcome problems. One example of how ingenuity is used conceptually can be found in the analysis of Thomas Homer-Dixon, building on that of Paul Romer, to refer to what is usually called instructional capital. In the case of Homer-Dixon, his use of the phrase 'ingenuity gap' denotes the space between a challenge and a solution.

Definition of ingenious in the English dictionary

The definition of ingenious in the dictionary is possessing or done with ingenuity; skilful or clever. Other definition of ingenious is having great intelligence; displaying genius.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INGENIOUS


atrabilious
ˌætrəˈbɪljəs
Junius
ˈdʒuːnjəs
maatjes
ˈmɑːtjəs
rebellious
rɪˈbɛljəs
rumbustious
rʌmˈbʌstjəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INGENIOUS

ingeminate
ingemination
ingenerate
ingeneration
Ingenhousz
ingeniously
ingeniousness
ingenium
ingenu
ingenue
ingenuities
ingenuity
ingenuous
ingenuously
ingenuousness
Ingerland
Ingerlund
ingest
ingesta
ingestible

WORDS THAT END LIKE INGENIOUS

acrimonious
arsenious
calumnious
ceremonious
delicious
disharmonious
euphonious
felonious
harmonious
ignominious
impecunious
inharmonious
insomnious
parsimonious
querimonious
ruthenious
sanctimonious
sanious
selenious
symphonious
unceremonious

Synonyms and antonyms of ingenious in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INGENIOUS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ingenious» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ingenious

Translation of «ingenious» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INGENIOUS

Find out the translation of ingenious to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ingenious from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ingenious» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

有独创性的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ingenioso
570 millions of speakers

English

ingenious
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सरल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بَارِعٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

изобретательный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

engenhoso
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রতিভাশালী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ingénieux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bijak
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

genial
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

独創的な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

독창적인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ingenious
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mưu trí
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தனித்துவமான
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कल्पक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

hünerli
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ingegnoso
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pomysłowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

винахідливий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ingenios
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

εφευρετικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vernuftige
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

genial
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

genial
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ingenious

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INGENIOUS»

The term «ingenious» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.582 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «INGENIOUS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ingenious

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10 QUOTES WITH «INGENIOUS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word ingenious.
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Isaac D'Israeli
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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F. W. de Klerk
When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his admiration for the Boer generals and how ingenious they were during the Anglo-Boer war.
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Terry Eagleton
Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.
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Helen Fisher
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.
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Theodor Herzl
The Jews had, as a matter of fact, long been all along the most ingenious entrepreneurs. It was only our own future that we had never built upon a business basis.
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James Joyce
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
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Henry W. Kendall
Many people and governments share the mistaken belief that science, with new, ingenious devices and techniques, can rescue us from the troubles we face without our having to mend our ways and change our patterns of activity. This is not so.
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Walter Kirn
The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle, the big break. Sit down at a lunch counter, stand back up a star. Invest in a new issue and watch it soar. Split a single atom, win a war.
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Henry A. Kissinger
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
10
Joseph Lancaster
We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INGENIOUS»

Discover the use of ingenious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ingenious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Book of Ingenious Devices / Kitáb al-¿iyal: Kitáb ...
AI-l:Iasan was a brilliant geometrician with aretenlive memoryand great powers of deduction. A rival onee tried to discredit him in front of al-Ma'mun hy saying that al l:Iasan had read only six of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements.
Muḥammad ibn Mūsá Ibn Shākir, Ḥasan ibn Mūsá Ibn Shākir, Donald Routledge Hill, 1979
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Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and ...
Suspenseful and bighearted, this is the story of ordinary people risking failure, economic ruin, and ridicule to create something vital that Detroit had never pulled off.
Jason Fagone, 2013
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Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions ...
Tells the story of how women throughout the ages have responded to situations confronting them in daily life by inventing such items as correction fluid, space helmets, and disposable diapers.
Catherine Thimmesh, 2002
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Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the ...
And in this book, with the subject's leading expert, curator Stuart M. Frank as your guide, you will be introduced to every possible permutation of these whalemen's fancies.
Stuart M. Frank, 2012
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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas ...
How do our computers perform these tasks with such ease? This is the first book to answer that question in language anyone can understand, revealing the extraordinary ideas that power our PCs, laptops, and smartphones.
John MacCormick, 2012
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Ingenious Ireland: A County-by-County Exploration of the ...
Ingenious Ireland takes readers on a magnificent tour of the country's natural wonders, clever inventions, and historic sites.
Mary Mulvihill, 2003
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Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution
The author of the critically acclaimed Worldly Goods presents a thoughtful reassessment of the Renaissance in terms of its influence on the history of science, relating the era's imaginative, artistic endeavors to the creative inspiration ...
Lisa Jardine, 2000
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Ingenious
Nine alien cyborgs come to human civilization in secret, silently seizing control of stations in deep space millions of miles from Earth. But what do these creatures want? Why have they come to Earth's solar system?
Michael McCloskey, 2011
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Ingenious
Ingenious is the new abstract placement game from internationally-renowned game designer Reiner Knizia.
Reiner Knizia, 2005
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Yankee Magazine's Now That's Ingenious!: Everyday Experts ...
Presents practical solutions for problems in both the house and garden.
Yankee Books, Yankee Magazine, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INGENIOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ingenious is used in the context of the following news items.
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India's Ingenious Solar Canals - Popular Mechanics
For the thousands of miles of canals in India, evaporation is a major concern. And for many citizens of India, inconsistent power is just a fact of ... «Popular Mechanics, Jul 15»
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'The Ingenious Judge Dee' follows law and order in the Tang …
It's CSI: China and it's brought to you courtesy of Hock Tjoa and eight other veteran Nevada County actors in “The Ingenious Judge Dee,” a ... «Auburn Journal, Jul 15»
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YB Loves: An Ingenious New Way to Moisturize
Each day the editors of Yahoo Beauty are sharing one noteworthy product we feel should be on your radar. From the latest and greatest items ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
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Moov, the ingenious fitness tracking startup, levels up its hardware
More than any other startup I've written about – and that's hundreds – Moov has changed my life. When I wrote in my February review of the startup's first-gen ... «Tech in Asia, Jul 15»
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Aplars Ships TUDIA Klip – Ingenious Clip Protects Fragile Apple …
St. Paul, MN, July 16, 2015 – Aplars, leading e-commerce store for electronic products and accessories, announced today that it is now ... «Twice, Jul 15»
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Second Skin: Ingenious Ways Scientists Are Replacing Human Skin …
Thankfully, scientists have made amazing strides in replacing skin with truly ingenious techniques, ranging from common skin grafts to robotic ... «Medical Daily, Jul 15»
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Video Reveals El Chapo's Ingenious Escape From Prison
El Chapo is arguably the most notorious drug lord of recent times. With an estimated net worth of more than a billion dollars according to Forbes ... «The Inquisitr, Jul 15»
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If You're Selling Stuff Online, Here's an Ingenious Idea of Where to …
BOSTON (AP) — Michele Velleman needed to sell a Zumba dance fitness kit, a cellphone and a table through Facebook. So she found buyers ... «TheBlaze.com, Jul 15»
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BBC Coast - Ingenious Isles
Tessa Dunlop crosses the channel to France to find out how an inauspicious fishing village in Normandy gave rise to British commercial radio ... «Southgate Amateur Radio Club, Jul 15»
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There's a clamor to bring back Nick Joaquin's ingenious children's …
While other people collect watches or bags, we consider our old children's books as treasure. Through the years, the family has given away ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 15»

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