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Definition of Ingenious |
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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. Proseeding 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. Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply. Mental; intellectual. Related Definitions: Adroit, An, Aptitude, As, Author, By, Characterized, Contrivance, Contrive, Curious, Design, Faculty, Form, From, Genius, Having, Ingenious, Ingenuity, Intellectual, Invent, Invention, Keen, Machine, Mechanic, Mechanism, Mental, Model, New, Of, Or, Pertaining, Possessed, Reply, Sagacious, Scheme, Shrewd, Skillful, Structure, The, To, Witty |
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Ingenious Quotations
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. Ambrose Bierce Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. Ambrose Bierce Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. Ambrose Bierce Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. Ambrose Bierce |
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Ingenious Translations
ingenious in Dutch is geniaal ingenious in Italian is ingegnoso ingenious in Latin is faber ingenious in Norwegian is skarpsindig, oppfinnsom ingenious in Spanish is ingenioso ingenious in Swedish is sinnrik, sinnrik, fyndig |
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