0 (of a person or his personality etc) clever at inventing -- opfindsom
He was ingenious at making up new games for the children.
1 (of an object or idea) cleverly made or thought out -- genial
an ingenious plan/machine.
And what art can be more helpful or more pleasing to a philosophical traveller, an architect and every ingenious mechanician?
The second part includes an attempt to mystify the audience through ingenious theatre technology.
Most ingenious of all the methods described in this book is the use of asymmetries in studying the development of the brain.
Outside games required an ingenious use of local materials.
Some of the modern, integrated applications of micropalaeontology and palynology in the oil industry are as equally ingenious as they are fascinating.
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.
A good deal of the argument is sensible, even ingenious.
There are many clever ones, though: cute, thoughfful, creative, ingenious, whimsical, stunningly inventive.