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# ingenuity

«ingenuity» in Mova's school dictionary: **being clever and inventive, so you find new and smart…** — 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

noun (ingenuity, uncountable); adjective ingenious

### meaning for a pupil

1) Ingenuity is being clever and inventive, so you find new and smart ways to solve problems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenuity/#m1)

2) (a name) Ingenuity was also the name of a small helicopter flown on Mars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenuity/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science, design and technology lessons it praises clever solutions; in stories it shows a resourceful hero. Phrases: «human ingenuity», «show ingenuity», «use your ingenuity».

### examples

- The team showed great ingenuity in building a bridge out of paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenuity/#x1)
- With a bit of ingenuity, we fixed the bike with string. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenuity/#x2)
- Robinson Crusoe survived by ingenuity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenuity/#x3)
- Engineers use ingenuity to solve problems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenuity/#x4)
- Human ingenuity put people on the Moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenuity/#x5)
- Her ingenuity amazed the judges. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenuity/#x6)
- The Ingenuity helicopter flew on Mars. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenuity/#x7)
- Use your ingenuity to escape the puzzle room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenuity/#x8)
- Now, most people throw them away, and that only shows what a number of things are wasted for want of a little patience and ingenuity.’ [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/ingenuity/#x9)

### note

Uncountable. Say «in-juh-NYOO-ih-tee». Trap: ingenuity goes with «ingenious» (clever), not with «ingenuous» (innocent and trusting).

### In the corpora

- [The rover Perseverance carried a small helicopter called Ingenuity, which flew on Mars, the first powered flight on another planet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/technology/39-robots-at-work-and-at-home/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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