INGENIOUS


Meaning of INGENIOUS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

cunning/clever/ingenious

They devised a cunning plan to get back their money.

The gang devised a cunning plan to rob the bank.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

more

A more ingenious theory claims that the stripes operate as a form of visual bonding between members of each herd.

As the Victorian age got under way, ever more ingenious technologies aided the steady advance of drainage.

Some slave-makers are more ingenious .

most

On the face of it a most ingenious scheme.

It was a most ingenious demonstration.

He was the most ingenious fisherman, the most resourceful craftsman, and the most competent sailor whom I had ever met.

Undoubtedly one of the most ingenious house tracks ever.

But their most ingenious use is in the making of insect traps.

Even so the most ingenious phraseology could not truly reconcile the many disparate concerns of the allies.

Great, thought Sly, a most ingenious paradox.

■ NOUN

method

Some advertise their trips as environmental Journeys and have hit on an ingenious method of sponsorship.

He had been using an ingenious method .

Considerable effort has gone into evaluating the risks and developing ingenious methods to reduce them.

way

An ingenious way of opening a second front.

Volunteers, sometimes wearing blue lapel pins in the shape of crutches, raised money in numerous and often ingenious ways .

A more rare and highly ingenious way of decorating carnelian was invented by the Sumerians.

He had to admit it was an ingenious way to phrase the question to a young audience.

Many fish have ingenious ways of protecting their eggs from predators, - mostly other fish.

Other corporations have devised ingenious ways to test and season their executives, according to McCall et al.

Instead, in an ingenious way , it uses a flywheel generator.

What he really enjoyed was the challenge and the stimulation of new problems to be solved in new and ingenious ways .

ways

Many fish have ingenious ways of protecting their eggs from predators, - mostly other fish.

Volunteers, sometimes wearing blue lapel pins in the shape of crutches, raised money in numerous and often ingenious ways .

Although some bugs rarely indulge, others enjoy it on demand, and in many ingenious ways .

Other corporations have devised ingenious ways to test and season their executives, according to McCall et al.

What he really enjoyed was the challenge and the stimulation of new problems to be solved in new and ingenious ways .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

A scanner is an ingenious device which enables you to feed pictures, photos or documents into a computer system.

American scientists have come up with an ingenious way of getting rid of cockroaches.

an ingenious marketing strategy

In the end it was Pete who thought of a really ingenious solution to the problem.

The catalogue is full of ingenious ideas for transforming your house into a dream home.

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