ingenious
adjEtymology
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.
Definitions
Of a person, displaying genius or brilliance
Of a person, displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.
- This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn’t even know I had.
Of a thing, characterized by genius
Of a thing, characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done.
- That is an ingenious model of the atom.
- Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude, / protected from the circle of the moon / That pitches common things about.
Showing originality or sagacity
Showing originality or sagacity; witty.
- He sent me an ingenious reply to an email.
- I have scarcely recovered the surprise of the ingenious question, before I meet another surprise in the still more ingenious answer
The neighborhood
- neighborengine
- neighborengineer
- neighborgenius
- neighboringeniosity
- neighboringeniousness
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at ingenious. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at ingenious. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at ingenious
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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