INGENIOUS Synonyms

• someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field

• having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• of surpassing excellence

• having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence

• characterized by grandeur

• having strong or striking color

• full of light; shining intensely

• clear and sharp and ringing

• having the ability or power to create

• promoting construction or creation

• endowed with talent or talents

• (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

• ahead of the times

• being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before

• exhibiting insight or clear and deep perception

• (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

• being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of

• an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

• something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

• preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

• (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary

• not derived or copied or translated from something else

• mentally nimble and resourceful

• having inner resources; adroit or imaginative

• keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point

• having or made by a thin edge or sharp point; suitable for cutting or piercing

• (of a musical note) raised in pitch by one chromatic semitone

• a musical notation indicating one half step higher than the note named

• a long thin sewing needle with a sharp point

• changing suddenly in direction and degree

• (of something seen or heard) clearly defined

• ending in a sharp point

• having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• harsh

• having or emitting a high-pitched and sharp tone or tones

• dangerously steep

• very sudden and in great amount or degree

• quick and forceful

• marked by practical hardheaded intelligence

• acting with a specific goal

• having or showing or requiring special skill

• showing mental alertness and calculation and resourcefulness

• a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore

• elegant and stylish

• characterized by quickness and ease in learning

• improperly forward or bold

• painfully severe

• quick and brisk

• capable of independent and apparently intelligent action

• be the source of pain

• endowed with talent or talents

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

• attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

• marked by skill in deception

• showing inventiveness and skill