ingenuity

Noun

Meaning

The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining.

Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism.

Openness of heart; ingenuousness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

cleverness inventiveness ingeniousness skill genius cunning esprit art ability address intelligence facility invention capability perception
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Antonyms

failure inability deficiency clumsy incompetence stupidity
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Hypernyms

creativeness superiority creativity high quality creative thinking

Hyponyms

resource imagination resourcefulness

Related terms

ingenious ingenuous

Anagrams

genuinity

Examples

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams

It is true that many scientists are not philosophically minded and have hitherto shown much skill and ingenuity but little wisdom. Max Born

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers. Sarah Palin

Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. Winston Churchill

What force cannot do ingenuity may. Spanish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

ingenuine ingenuitive ingenuitous ingenuous ingenuous ease ingenuous person