INGENUITY | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Meaning of ingenuity in English
imagination You’ve always had a very vivid imagination. creativity The aim of the award is to encourage creativity and innovation. vision He was a man of great vision. inventiveness His domestic designs display an unending inventiveness and account for his best work. ingenuity This housewife's ingenuity led to the creation of a number of great new household products. originality Her photographic portraits can hardly be accused of lacking originality.
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(Definition of ingenuity from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
Examples of ingenuity
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Simple teamwork and ingenuity meant their employers didn't pay out budget-crushing injury claims to workers with wrecked backs.
The scheme was a blend of low-tech ingenuity and modern medical technology, and one that's gaining momentum as word spreads of its success.
Ensuring interoperability between these systems and archival systems requires engineering, ingenuity , and regular attention.
They're going to rebuild; that's the human ingenuity .
And we won't just be living amid the clouds -- human ingenuity will take us deep below the surface.
Instead, the resources generated by human ingenuity remain far ahead of human consumption.
His legendary ingenuity was an exhaustless source of ideas for public benefit.
Everything about it had a kind of ingenuity to it.
As the world tackles pressing challenges of peace, poverty, and human rights, we need the ingenuity and involvement of young people more than ever.
It is a world full of ingenuity , practicality, and even beauty.
The reader is present, a witness to the homely, desperate ingenuity required by mundane survival as well as the rending horrors of crises.
Malware of any stripe is bad, but sometimes you can still tip your cap at ingenuity .
Education above all guides people into the next stage of ingenuity and technology.
It's really a stamp of quality and ingenuity .
There's so much ingenuity going on in this country.
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Translations of ingenuity
in Chinese (Traditional)
心靈手巧, 足智多謀, 獨創力…
in Chinese (Simplified)
心灵手巧, 足智多谋, 独创力…
in Spanish
ingenio, ingenio [masculine, singular]…
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engenhosidade, criatividade [feminine]…
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発明の才能, 創意工夫の才能, 創造力（そうぞうりょく）…
yaratıcılık, hüner, akıllılık…
ingéniosité [feminine], ingéniosité…
opfindsomhed, genialitet…
fyndighet, påhittighet, genialitet…
genialitet [masculine], kunstferdighet, genialitet…
винахідливість, дотепність…
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