Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being ingenious or prompt in invention; ingenuity.
- noun Cleverness; brightness; aptness.
- noun Ingenuousness; candor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being ingenious; ingenuity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
ingenious .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the power of creative imagination
- noun the property of being ingenious
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Examples
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Without giving away too much, I must confess that I found the machinations behind the main storyline quite prosaic in comparison to what I was being led to expect from the sheer brilliance of exposition and ingeniousness of the main protagonists – especially Locke Lamora and his ability to outwit the devil himself.
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His cynical narrator is a zombie hunter/P.I., and every single detail of his world has been worked out with breathtaking ingeniousness.
Lev Raphael: 6 Best Spell-Binding Novels of the Decade: A Magical Literary Tour Lev Raphael 2010
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His cynical narrator is a zombie hunter/P.I., and every single detail of his world has been worked out with breathtaking ingeniousness.
Lev Raphael: 6 Best Spell-Binding Novels of the Decade: A Magical Literary Tour Lev Raphael 2010
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Without giving away too much, I must confess that I found the machinations behind the main storyline quite prosaic in comparison to what I was being led to expect from the sheer brilliance of exposition and ingeniousness of the main protagonists – especially Locke Lamora and his ability to outwit the devil himself.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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The ingeniousness of such a potential plan stems from the former 'No' unionist camp being able to amalgamate the first preference votes of the status quo and Calman options from the multi-option referendum model and pretty much guarantee a win, particularly given that they are voting 'for' more powers and not 'against' separation.
Are Unionist parties big game hunting? Jeff 2009
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That Rossellini could accomplish this in projects hobbled by tiny budgets and various production and distribution mishaps attests to both his artistry and his ingeniousness.
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As always, one is struck by the ingeniousness of our powerful elite in politics, media, and finance.
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We appreciate the ingeniousness of that cake even if the folks at the cake show didn't!
Fan "Art" 2009
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The ingeniousness of such a potential plan stems from the former 'No' unionist camp being able to amalgamate the first preference votes of the status quo and Calman options from the multi-option referendum model and pretty much guarantee a win, particularly given that they are voting 'for' more powers and not 'against' separation.
Archive 2009-06-01 Jeff 2009
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It will be your ingeniousness that will bring the powers of our wind, of our sun, our geothermal, our oceans.
Rep. Charles Rangel: Graduates: End the War and Help Get America Back on Track 2008
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