Meaning & use
ingenuity
Cleverness and inventiveness in solving problems or creating something new.
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The engineers' ingenuity produced a cheap water filter from recycled plastic bottles.
Her ingenuity in the kitchen turned a few simple ingredients into a feast.
A note on using this word
Ingenuity emphasizes clever, original thinking, distinguishing it from mere hard work or intelligence alone.
Words with a similar meaning
inventivenessresourcefulness
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Words with an opposite meaning
dullness
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