🔄 Synonyms of "Ingenious"
8 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| cunningnoun | Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour. |
| artful | Characterized by, or performed with, cleverness or contrivance; clever, ingenious. |
| adroit | deft, dexterous, or skillful |
| clevernoun | Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent. |
| inventive | Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing. |
| creativenoun | Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these. |
| imaginative | Having a lively or creative imagination. |
| originative | That originates; creative |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Ingenious"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| creative | Tending to create things, or having the ability to create; often, excellently, in a novel fashion, or any or all of these. |
| imaginative | Having a lively or creative imagination. |
| adroit | deft, dexterous, or skillful |
| inventive | Possessed of a particular capacity for the design of new mechanisms or processes, creative or skilful at inventing. |
| clever | Quick to understand, learn, and devise or apply ideas; intelligent. |
| originative | That originates; creative |
| artful | Characterized by, or performed with, cleverness or contrivance; clever, ingenious. |
| cunning | Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour. |
| intelligent | Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright. |
| witty | Clever; amusingly ingenious. |
| crafty | Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. |
| talented | Endowed with one or more talents. |
| gifted | Endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities. |
| astute | Shrewd or crafty. |
| resourceful | Capable or clever; able to put available resources to efficient or ingenious use; using materials at hand wisely or efficiently. |
| innovative | Characterized by the creation of new ideas or inventions. |
| sophisticated | Of a person: having obtained worldly experience, and lacking naiveté; cosmopolitan, worldly-wise. |
| nifty | (colloquial, somewhat dated) Good, smart; useful or beneficial, often in an impressively clever way. |
| meticulous | Characterized by very precise, conscientious attention to details. |
| wise | Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience. |
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