English-Thai Dictionary

ingenuity

N ความเฉลียวฉลาด  inventiveness cleverness resourcefulness stupidity kwam-cha-lie-cha-lad

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INGENUITY

n.The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in combining ideas, or in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill; used of persons. How many machines for saving labor has the ingenuity of men devised and constructed. 1. Curiousness in design, the effect of ingenuity; as the ingenuity of a plan or of mechanism.
2. Openness of heart; fairness; candor. [This sense of the word was formerly common, and is found in good authors down to the age of Locke, and even later; but it is now wholly obsolete. In lieu of it, ingenousness is used. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INGENUITY

In `ge *nu "i *ty, n. Etym: [L. ingenuitas ingenuousness: cf. F.ingénuité. See Ingenuous. ]

 

1. The quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining. All the means which human ingenuity has contrived. Blair.

 

2. Curiousness, or cleverness in design or contrivance; as, the ingenuity of a plan, or of mechanism. He gives. .. To artist ingenuity and skill. Cowper.

 

3. Openness of heat; ingeniuousness. [Obs. ] The stings and remores of natural ingenuity, a principle that men scarcely ever shake off, as long as they carry anything of human nature about them. South.

 

Syn. -- Inventiveness; ingeniousness; skill; cunning; cleverness; genius. -- Ingenuity, Cleverness. Ingenuity is a form of genius, and cleverness of talent. The former implies invention, the letter a peculiar dexterity and readiness of execution. Sir James Mackintosh remarks that the English overdo in the use of the word clever and cleverness, applying them loosely to almost every form of intellectual ability.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

ingenuity

in ge nu i ty |ˌinjəˈn (y )o͞oitē ˌɪnʤəˈn (j )uədi | ▶noun the quality of being clever, original, and inventive. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (also in the senses ‘nobility ’ and ‘ingenuousness ’): from Latin ingenuitas ‘ingenuousness, ’ from ingenuus ‘inborn. ’ The current meaning arose by confusion of ingenuous with ingenious .

 

Oxford Dictionary

ingenuity

ingenuity |ˌɪndʒɪˈnjuːɪti | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the quality of being clever, original, and inventive. ORIGIN late 16th cent. (also in the senses ‘nobility ’ and ‘ingenuousness ’): from Latin ingenuitas ‘ingenuousness ’, from ingenuus ‘inborn ’. The current meaning arose by confusion of ingenuous with ingenious .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

ingenuity

ingenuity noun the boundless ingenuity of da Vinci: inventiveness, creativity, imagination, innovation, enterprise, insight, perception, perceptiveness, intuition, inspiration; finesse, flair, artistry; genius, intelligence, cleverness, brilliance; talent, skill, mastery; acumen, astuteness, sharpness, shrewdness; informal thinking outside the box.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

ingenuity

ingenuity noun considerable ingenuity must be employed in writing software: inventiveness, creativity, imagination, originality, innovation, resourcefulness, enterprise, insight, inspiration, perceptiveness, perception, intuition, flair, finesse, artistry, genius; cleverness, intelligence, brilliance, mastery, talent, skill; sharpness, astuteness, acumen, acuity, sharp-wittedness, quick-wittedness, quickness, shrewdness; sophistication; informal thinking outside the box.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

ingenuity

in ge nu i ty /ɪ̀n (d )ʒən j úːəti /名詞 複 -ties /-z /1 U 創意, 工夫, 巧妙 .2 C 〖通例 -ties 〗巧妙な工夫, 発明 [品 ].