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# ingenious

«ingenious» in Mova's school dictionary: **Very clever and inventive, especially at finding new ways…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (ingenious, more ingenious, most ingenious); adverb (ingeniously); noun (ingenuity)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Very clever and inventive, especially at finding new ways to solve problems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenious/#m1)

2) (of an idea or machine) Cleverly planned and made. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenious/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In design and technology and science, an ingenious invention solves a problem in a new way, like the wheel or Velcro. In the Just So Stories, Taffy and her father Tegumai are ingenious: they invent letters from pictures and sounds. In Alice, the White Knight has many «ingenious» inventions that never work, which is a joke. Phrase: «an ingenious idea».

### examples

- What an ingenious way to fix the bike! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenious/#x1)
- Tegumai and Taffy found an ingenious way to write sounds. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenious/#x2)
- The robot was an ingenious invention. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenious/#x3)
- She built an ingenious trap to catch the sweet thief. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenious/#x4)
- The escape plan was ingenious. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenious/#x5)
- Leonardo da Vinci drew many ingenious machines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenious/#x6)
- Benfey's suggestion is certainly ingenious, but perhaps too ingenious to be true. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenious/#x7)

### note

Trap: ingenious (clever) vs ingenuous (innocent, too trusting). The noun of ingenious is ingenuity, not «ingeniousness» (that is rare).

### In the corpora

- [Toad!» (ingenious = very clever at inventing things)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/64-willows-ch10-part4-into-the-horse-pond/31/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «ingenious» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenious/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.