0 (of a person) very intelligent and skilful, or (of a thing) skilfully made or planned and involving new ideas and methods:
Johnny is so ingenious - he can make the most remarkable sculptures from the most ordinary materials.
1 (of a person) skilled at inventing new ways to do something, esp. to solve problems, or (of ideas or things) original, and showing esp. the ability to solve problems:
an ingenious engineer/songwriter
Bizarrely messy at first sight, they ultimately reveal a hidden structure which is every bit as ingenious as that of a traditional wellmade plot.
Endless simple yet ingenious methods were invented by the bacteria for developing the incredible diversity of observed complex patterns.
All of this is ingenious and suggestive, but of little direct relevance to the seventeenth century.
The proposed model is a courageous and ingenious attempt to integrate the current forms of generativism and associationism into one system.
This ingenious attempt is likely to prove a failure.
An ingenious microtonal keyboard configuration, although not for pianos, was invented over a hundred years ago but has not exactly caught on.
One could fill up a library with writings in many languages which are basically ingenious and ingenuous glosses on these three ideas.
There are many clever ones, though: cute, thoughfful, creative, ingenious, whimsical, stunningly inventive.
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