Definición de ingenious en inglés:

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Pronunciación: /inˈjēnyəs/


Más ejemplos en oraciones
astute, sharp-witted, quick-witted, shrewd;
elaborate, sophisticated
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Ingenious and ingenuous are often confused. Ingenious means ‘clever, skillful, resourceful’ ( an ingenious device), while ingenuous means ‘artless, frank’ ( charmed by the ingenuous honesty of the child).



Pronunciación: /inˈjēnyəsnəs/
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  • Justin soon realized the ingeniousness of this.



  • engine from Middle English:

    Engine is from Old French engin, from Latin ingenium ‘talent, device’, the source also of ingenious (Late Middle English). Like many English words that now start with en-, it could also be spelled in-. Its original senses were ‘ingenuity, cunning’, and ‘natural talent, wit, genius’, which survives in Scots as ingine. From there it became ‘the product of ingenuity, a plot, or snare’, and also ‘a tool or weapon’, specifically a large mechanical weapon, such as a battering ram or heavy catapult, constructed by engineers (Middle English). By the first half of the 17th century something like our idea of an engine had arisen, a fairly complex device with moving parts that worked together.

Palabras que riman con ingenious

genius, heterogeneous, homogeneous

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División en sílabas: in·gen·ious

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