Ingenuity

Noun

 * 1) The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original and creative ways
 * The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
 * Poverty is the mother of ingenuity.

Adjectives for Ingenuity
considerable; mechanical; inventive; misguided; speculative; wonderful; naive;fiendish; subtle; puerile; interwoven; productive; devilish; unbetrayed; calumnious; extraordinary; conjectural.

Verbs for Ingenuity
acknowledge—; conceive by—; defy—; demand—; display—; employ—; excel in—; encourage—; endow with—; exercise—; feign—; invent by—; observe—; profit by —; strain—; swathe in—; tax—; witness—; —conquers; —triumphs.

Thesaurus
ability, acuteness, address, adeptness, adroitness, airmanship, aptness, art, artfulness, artisanship, artistry, bravura, brilliance, canniness, capability, capacity, cleverness, command, competence, control, coordination, craft, craftsmanship, creativeness, creativity, cunning, deftness, dexterity, dexterousness, dextrousness, diplomacy, efficiency, expertise, facility, faculty, fecundity, fertile mind, fertility, finesse, flair, genius, gift, grace, grip, handiness, horsemanship, imagination, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, invention, inventiveness, keenness, knack, know-how, marksmanship, mastership, mastery, originality, practical ability, pregnant imagination, productivity, proficiency, prolificacy, prowess, quickness, readiness, resource, resourcefulness, savoir-faire, savvy, seamanship, sharpness, shrewdness, skill, skillfulness, smartness, style, tact, tactfulness, talent, technical brilliance, technical mastery, technical skill, technique, teeming imagination, timing, virtuosity, wit, wizardry, workmanship

Translations

 * Bosnian: inventivnost
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ingéniosité


 * Hungarian:, leleményesség
 * Italian:
 * Russian: находчивость, изобрететельность
 * Spanish:

Related terms

 * ingenious
 * ingenuous