Meaning

3 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness.

    The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.

    Poverty is the mother of ingenuity.

    Einfallsreichtum, Findigkeit, Raffinesse

    нахо́дчивостьnaxódčivostʹ, изобрета́тельностьizobretátelʹnostʹ

  2. (uncountable, usually)An ingenuous action or thought.

  3. (archaic, uncountable, usually)Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness

More definitions
  • the property of being ingenious
  • the power of creative imagination

Examples

12 sentences
  1. I admire your ingenuity.

  2. I admire their ingenuity.

    ruЯ восхищён их изобретательностью. — marafon

    deIch bewundere ihren Einfallsreichtum. — christian42

  3. Gabriel survived using his ingenuity and determination.

  4. It is nothing that a little persistence and ingenuity can't overcome.

  5. The talented finance minister's ingenuity has helped his bankrupt nation to get out of the red.

    ruИзобретательность талантливого министра финансов помогла его государству-банкроту рассчитаться с долгами. — sharptoothed

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems:

Origin

From Latin ingenuitās. Compare genius.

From Latin ingenuitās. Compare genius.

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Forms

plural: ingenuities
Singularingenuity

uncountable

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

8 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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