英语词汇“ingenious”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

Something ingenious shows creativity and inventiveness. If someone compares you to Einstein, they're implying that you, too, are ingenious.

Ingenious comes from the Latin words for inborn talent. It started off meaning someone who was talented or incredibly smart, but has come to mean inventive, or clever. If you can solve 146,392 * 27,453 in your head, people might call you a math genius. But if you come up with a way to turn water into fuel, you will be praised as ingenious. Ingenious can also describe thing, like an ingenious device.

CHOOSE YOUR WORDS

ingenious / ingenuous

Quiz time! Which example uses ingenuous correctly?

YouTube Marketing An Ingenuous Thing: What You Need To Know

Indeed, even an ingenuous child cries out with remorse when caught.

Joe Muench: Ingenuous plan for using those Asarco properties

If you picked the second one, give yourself a gold star. Ingenuous means innocent, artless, simple. It could be a compliment or an insult, but it does not somehow mean clever or creative. Our second example explains that even a innocent child will feel remorse about a thing if he's caught doing it (though, if he's "caught," doesn't that imply wrongdoing?).

The sad, ingenuous path of John Locke has been trumped by the machinations of Betty Draper.

If you refuse to take part in a game of corruption that everyone around you is playing, you're taken for an ingenuous fool.

Both the first and third examples wanted ingenious, meaning something original, creative, inventive. As in:

Caffeinated Marshmallows?! Ingenious!

YouTube marketing might be just thing clever thing to sell your product. And though you might have an innocent way of using those Asarco properties, it's not something worth bragging about. A creative use is another story. So are caffeinated marshmallows. Just don't give them to ingenuous kids.

WORD FAMILY

ingenious: ingeniousest, ingeniously, ingeniousness, ingenuity+/ingenuity: ingenuities

USAGE EXAMPLES

A Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles is available from the Guardian Bookshop and other retailers.

The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017)

“Today’s Doodle shows Macintosh enjoying a Scottish rain shower whilst testing his ingenious invention,” Google said in their tribute.

Time(Dec 29, 2016)

The research is ingenious and promising, but it also suggests a mastery over nature that may be hard to achieve.

The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016)

adj showing inventiveness and skill

an ingenious solution to the problem

Syn

clever, cunning
adroit

quick or skillful or adept in action or thought

单词	ingenious
释义	ingenious (once / 265 pages) adj Something ingenious shows creativity and inventiveness. If someone compares you to Einstein, they're implying that you, too, are ingenious. Ingenious comes from the Latin words for inborn talent. It started off meaning someone who was talented or incredibly smart, but has come to mean inventive, or clever. If you can solve 146,392 * 27,453 in your head, people might call you a math genius. But if you come up with a way to turn water into fuel, you will be praised as ingenious. Ingenious can also describe thing, like an ingenious device. CHOOSE YOUR WORDS ingenious / ingenuous Quiz time! Which example uses ingenuous correctly? YouTube Marketing An Ingenuous Thing: What You Need To Know Indeed, even an ingenuous child cries out with remorse when caught. Joe Muench: Ingenuous plan for using those Asarco properties If you picked the second one, give yourself a gold star. Ingenuous means innocent, artless, simple. It could be a compliment or an insult, but it does not somehow mean clever or creative. Our second example explains that even a innocent child will feel remorse about a thing if he's caught doing it (though, if he's "caught," doesn't that imply wrongdoing?). The sad, ingenuous path of John Locke has been trumped by the machinations of Betty Draper. If you refuse to take part in a game of corruption that everyone around you is playing, you're taken for an ingenuous fool. Both the first and third examples wanted ingenious, meaning something original, creative, inventive. As in: Caffeinated Marshmallows?! Ingenious! YouTube marketing might be just thing clever thing to sell your product. And though you might have an innocent way of using those Asarco properties, it's not something worth bragging about. A creative use is another story. So are caffeinated marshmallows. Just don't give them to ingenuous kids. WORD FAMILY ingenious: ingeniousest, ingeniously, ingeniousness, ingenuity+/ingenuity: ingenuities USAGE EXAMPLES A Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles is available from the Guardian Bookshop and other retailers. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) “Today’s Doodle shows Macintosh enjoying a Scottish rain shower whilst testing his ingenious invention,” Google said in their tribute. Time(Dec 29, 2016) The research is ingenious and promising, but it also suggests a mastery over nature that may be hard to achieve. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) adj showing inventiveness and skill an ingenious solution to the problem Syn clever, cunning adroit quick or skillful or adept in action or thought
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