ingenious. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

ingenious

SYLLABICATION:	in·gen·ious
PRONUNCIATION:	n-jnys
ADJECTIVE:	1. Marked by inventive skill and imagination. 2. Having or arising from an inventive or cunning mind; clever: an ingenious scheme. See synonyms at clever. 3. Obsolete Having genius; brilliant.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English, from Old French ingenios, from Latin ingenisus, from ingenium, inborn talent. See gen- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	in·genious·ly —ADVERB in·genious·ness —NOUN


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