INGENUITY meaning: Cleverness and inventiveness in creation

We found 27 dictionaries that define the word ingenuity:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

ingenuity: Merriam-Webster.com
ingenuity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
ingenuity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
ingenuity: Collins English Dictionary
ingenuity: Vocabulary.com
Ingenuity, ingenuity: Wordnik
ingenuity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
ingenuity: Wiktionary
ingenuity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
ingenuity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
ingenuity: Infoplease Dictionary
Ingenuity, ingenuity: Dictionary.com
ingenuity: Online Etymology Dictionary
ingenuity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Ingenuity (Album), Ingenuity (album), Ingenuity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Ingenuity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
ingenuity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
ingenuity: Rhymezone
ingenuity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
ingenuity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ingenuity: Free Dictionary
ingenuity: Mnemonic Dictionary
ingenuity: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

ingenuity: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

ingenuity: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun: The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways.
▸ noun: (now rare) Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness

Opposite:

ineptitude, incompetence, ineptness

Types:

creativity, resourcefulness, innovation, inventiveness, originality, cleverness, imagination, problem-solving, more...

Phrases:

Yankee ingenuity, with ingenuity and finesse, ingenuity displayed by big bear, more...

Adjectives:

human, great, much, considerable, own, little, mechanical, american, remarkable, technical, utmost

Colors:

silver, teal, cobalt blue, amber, violet, more...

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