ingenious

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Cleverly inventive and original; very good at solving problems in new ways.

   She came up with an ingenious way to keep the kids entertained on the long trip.

2. 2
   adj

   Cleverly designed or made.

   The engineers built an ingenious device that folds flat for storage.

Borrowed from Middle French ingénieux, from Old French engenious, from Latin ingeniōsus (“endowed with good natural capacity, gifted with genius”), from ingenium (“innate or natural quality, natural capacity, genius”), from in- (“in”) + gignere (“to produce”), Old Latin genere. See also engine.

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