What does ingenious mean?

ingenious means "showing inventiveness and skill".

How many syllables are in ingenious?

ingenious has 3 syllables: in-ge-nious. The stress falls on "ge". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdʒinjəs/.

What is another word for ingenious?

Close synonyms include clever, cunning. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ingenious a common word?

ingenious is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ingenious?

2 words rhyme with ingenious. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.

ingenious — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
showing inventiveness and skill
“a clever gadget”
“the cunning maneuvers leading to his success”
“an ingenious solution to the problem”
Synonymsclever cunning
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What does ingenious mean?: ingenious means "showing inventiveness and skill".
How many syllables are in ingenious?: ingenious has 3 syllables: in-ge-nious. The stress falls on "ge". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdʒinjəs/.

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