ingenious
/ɪnˈd͡ʒiːnjəs/ adjective C1- Of a person, displaying genius, ingenuity or brilliance; inventive. · This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn’t even know I had.
- Of a thing, characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done. · That is an ingenious model of the atom.
- Showing originality or sagacity; characterized by ingenuity; witty. · He sent me an ingenious reply to an email.
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Albert found in his anteroom two guns, with all the accoutrements for hunting; a lofty room on the ground floor containing all the ingenious instruments the English—eminent in piscatory pursuits, since they are patient and sluggish—have invented for fishing.
But on her returning to the drawing-room, when her letter was finished, she saw, to her infinite surprise, there was reason to fear that her mother had been too ingenious for her.
“Your last remark,” said Holmes, presently, “as to the possibility of there being an understanding between the burglar and the servant, and this being a note of appointment from one to the other, is an ingenious and not entirely impossible supposition.
He had not been more than ten minutes in the drawing-room before he drew Danglars aside into the recess of a bow-window, and, after an ingenious preamble, related to him all his anxieties and cares since his noble father’s departure.
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