ingenious
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈdʒiː.ni.əs/ us
/ɪnˈdʒiː.ni.əs/
Johnny is so ingenious - he can make the most remarkable sculptures from the most ordinary materials.
Meaning of ingenious in English
(Definition of ingenious from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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ingenious
adjective
us
/ɪnˈdʒin·jəs/
Examples of ingenious
ingenious
Bizarrely messy at first sight, they ultimately reveal a hidden structure which is every bit as ingenious as that of a traditional wellmade plot.
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Endless simple yet ingenious methods were invented by the bacteria for developing the incredible diversity of observed complex patterns.
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All of this is ingenious and suggestive, but of little direct relevance to the seventeenth century.
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The proposed model is a courageous and ingenious attempt to integrate the current forms of generativism and associationism into one system.
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This ingenious attempt is likely to prove a failure.
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An ingenious microtonal keyboard configuration, although not for pianos, was invented over a hundred years ago but has not exactly caught on.
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One could fill up a library with writings in many languages which are basically ingenious and ingenuous glosses on these three ideas.
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A good deal of the argument is sensible, even ingenious.
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Rather than be impressed by such ingenious playfulness, the reader or audience may feel that it is rationally indefensible upon philosophical, aesthetic, and ethical grounds.
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Some of the modern, integrated applications of micropalaeontology and palynology in the oil industry are as equally ingenious as they are fascinating.
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Outside games required an ingenious use of local materials.
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Most ingenious of all the methods described in this book is the use of asymmetries in studying the development of the brain.
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The second part includes an attempt to mystify the audience through ingenious theatre technology.
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And what art can be more helpful or more pleasing to a philosophical traveller, an architect and every ingenious mechanician?
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In this ingenious way, the theatre's conventionality is unveiled, and this, in turn, heightens the appearance of the aesthetic function.
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ingénieux/-euse, astucieux/-euse, ingénieux…
enginyós…
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opfindsom, genial…
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erfinderisch, raffiniert…
genial, sinnrik, oppfinnsom…
винахідливий, майстерний, дотепний…
изобретательный, оригинальный…
بارِع, مُبتَكِر, مُبدِع…
vynalézavý, důmyslný…
pintar, banyak akal, cerdik…
ชาญฉลาด, มีความคิดสร้างสรรค์…
khéo léo, tài tình, mưu trí…
pomysłowy, genialny, zmyślny…
재치있는…
ingegnoso…
