adjective. Having great inventive skill and imagination.

adjective. Marked by or exhibiting originality or inventiveness.

adjective. Having genius; brilliant.

Possessing inventive genius or faculty; apt in inventing, contriving, or constructing; skilful in the use of things or words: as, an ingenious mechanic; an ingenious author.

Mentally bright or clever; witty; conversable.

Marked or characterized by inventive genius; displaying or proceeding from skill in contrivance or construction; witty or clever in form or spirit; well conceived; apt: as, an ingenious machine; an ingenious process or performance; ingenious criticism.

Manifesting or requiring mental brightness or cleverness; intellectual; improving.

Ingenuous.

Synonyms Inventive, bright, acute, constructive. See genius.

adjective. Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations.

adjective. Proceeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by, genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or mechanism

adjective. Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.

adjective. Mental; intellectual.

adjective. Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.

adjective. Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.

adjective. Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.

adjective. showing inventiveness and skill

"With these the English word ingenious has an obvious connection, especially in its earlier use as applied to men of letters."

barren  helpless  

adroit  

engine  engineer  genius  

genius  heterogeneous  

amuse  clever  logical  practical  shrewd  

Daedalian  Machiavellian  Machiavellic  acute  adept