ingenious

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

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Definition

  1. adjective showing inventiveness and skill

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ingénieux, from Old French engenious, from Latin ingeniōsus (“endowed with good natural capacity, gifted with genius”), from ingenium (“innate or natural quality, natural capacity, genius”), from in- (“in”) + gignere (“to produce”), Old Latin genere. See also engine.

In classic literature

Synonyms

clever, cunning

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