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Definition of ingenuity in English: ingenuitynoun ˌɪndʒɪˈnjuːɪtiˌɪndʒəˈn(j)uədi mass nounThe quality of being clever, original, and inventive. considerable ingenuity must be employed in writing software the ingenuity of Haydn's scoring Example sentencesExamples - In every way - performance, build quality, ingenuity of design - it is the better car.
- They must use all their ingenuity to complete their hazardous work and survive.
- Smaller boats are masterpieces of ingenuity, with folding tables and settees which convert into beds.
- But then they are just career politicians afraid of imagination and ingenuity.
- This is because there was little structural inventiveness or technical ingenuity.
- I marvel at the almost boundless ingenuity and skill of mankind sometimes.
- Rather, the curators have used their resources with ingenuity to make us look at Dutch painting in a very different way.
- Her soulful lyrics expose her vulnerability as an artist and her ingenuity as a poet.
- Only with human ingenuity, inspiration and ability can we sample what our neighbouring world has to offer.
- By the very nature of them it is clear you are a man of some intelligence and some ingenuity.
- The film's landscape of urban desolation must have taken some ingenuity to achieve.
- Originality and ingenuity are the aims of a competition launched at a Trowbridge school on Friday.
- He resolves to build a monument to nineteenth century ingenuity and invention that will blend fantasy and reality.
- His intelligence and ingenuity have enabled him to become the number one predator.
- The elements of heaven and earth are elegantly manifested by the artists' ingenuity.
- Despite the technology, you still need human talent and ingenuity to create a work of greatness.
- However, these are remarkable examples of ingenuity as well as artistry.
- The story is told with considerable ingenuity and also a little humour from a team fully in touch with their puppet world.
- His clocks were masterpieces of skill, precision, ingenuity, and determination.
- Bookshops can deploy all their marketing ingenuity to produce imaginative displays.
Synonyms inventiveness, creativity, imagination, originality, innovation, resourcefulness, enterprise, insight, inspiration, perceptiveness, perception, intuition, flair, finesse, artistry, genius cleverness, intelligence, brilliance, mastery, talent, skill sharpness, astuteness, acumen, acuity, sharp-wittedness, quick-wittedness, quickness, shrewdness sophistication informal thinking outside the box
Origin Late 16th century (also in the senses 'nobility' and 'ingenuousness'): from Latin ingenuitas 'ingenuousness', from ingenuus 'inborn'. The current meaning arose by confusion of ingenuous with ingenious. Rhymes acuity, ambiguity, annuity, assiduity, congruity, contiguity, continuity, exiguity, fatuity, fortuity, gratuity, perpetuity, perspicuity, promiscuity, suety, superfluity, tenuity, vacuity Definition of ingenuity in US English: ingenuitynounˌinjəˈn(y)o͞oədēˌɪndʒəˈn(j)uədi The quality of being clever, original, and inventive. considerable ingenuity must be employed in writing software the ingenuity of Haydn's scoring Example sentencesExamples - Rather, the curators have used their resources with ingenuity to make us look at Dutch painting in a very different way.
- The elements of heaven and earth are elegantly manifested by the artists' ingenuity.
- But then they are just career politicians afraid of imagination and ingenuity.
- Only with human ingenuity, inspiration and ability can we sample what our neighbouring world has to offer.
- His intelligence and ingenuity have enabled him to become the number one predator.
- The story is told with considerable ingenuity and also a little humour from a team fully in touch with their puppet world.
- Despite the technology, you still need human talent and ingenuity to create a work of greatness.
- This is because there was little structural inventiveness or technical ingenuity.
- Originality and ingenuity are the aims of a competition launched at a Trowbridge school on Friday.
- His clocks were masterpieces of skill, precision, ingenuity, and determination.
- In every way - performance, build quality, ingenuity of design - it is the better car.
- Her soulful lyrics expose her vulnerability as an artist and her ingenuity as a poet.
- They must use all their ingenuity to complete their hazardous work and survive.
- Bookshops can deploy all their marketing ingenuity to produce imaginative displays.
- Smaller boats are masterpieces of ingenuity, with folding tables and settees which convert into beds.
- He resolves to build a monument to nineteenth century ingenuity and invention that will blend fantasy and reality.
- The film's landscape of urban desolation must have taken some ingenuity to achieve.
- However, these are remarkable examples of ingenuity as well as artistry.
- By the very nature of them it is clear you are a man of some intelligence and some ingenuity.
- I marvel at the almost boundless ingenuity and skill of mankind sometimes.
Synonyms inventiveness, creativity, imagination, originality, innovation, resourcefulness, enterprise, insight, inspiration, perceptiveness, perception, intuition, flair, finesse, artistry, genius
Origin Late 16th century (also in the senses ‘nobility’ and ‘ingenuousness’): from Latin ingenuitas ‘ingenuousness’, from ingenuus ‘inborn’. The current meaning arose by confusion of ingenuous with ingenious. |