Usually means: Clever, original, and inventive thinking.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word Ingenious:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ingenious: Merriam-Webster
  2. ingenious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ingenious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ingenious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ingenious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ingenious, ingenious: Wordnik
  7. ingenious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ingenious: Wiktionary
  9. ingenious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ingenious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ingenious: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ingenious, ingenious: Dictionary.com
  13. ingenious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ingenious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ingenious (American film), Ingenious (board game), Ingenious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ingenious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ingenious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ingenious: Rhymezone
  19. ingenious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ingenious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. ingenious: FreeDictionary.org
  22. ingenious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ingenious: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. ingenious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ingenious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ingenious: Encyclopedia

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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ingenious: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ingenious)

▸ adjective:  (of a person) Displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.
▸ adjective:  (of a thing) Characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done.
▸ adjective:  Showing originality or sagacity; witty.

Similar:
imaginative, inventive, artful, creative, adroit, clever, cunning, originative, engenious, ingenuitive, more...

Opposite:
dull, stupid, doltish, dumb, asinine, asininity, asininely

Phrases:
Ingenious Media, Book of Ingenious Devices, creative or ingenious, an ingenious person, more...

Adjectives:
ingenuous, several, highly, some, french, late, most

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    cerulean,     teal,     emerald,     sapphire,     amethyst, more...


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Similar:
imaginative, inventive, artful, creative, adroit, clever, cunning, originative, engenious, ingenuitive, more...

Opposite:
dull, stupid, doltish, dumb, asinine, asininity, asininely

Phrases:
Ingenious Media, Book of Ingenious Devices, creative or ingenious, an ingenious person, more...

Adjectives:
ingenuous, several, highly, some, french, late, most

Colors:
    cerulean,     teal,     emerald,     sapphire,     amethyst, more...



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