What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Felicitous vs Ingenious - What's the difference?

felicitous | ingenious |

As adjectives the difference between felicitous and ingenious

is that felicitous is fitting; happening at the right time while ingenious is displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.

felicitous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • fitting; happening at the right time.
  • Working out well.
  • (linguistics, of a sentence or utterance) Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
    • This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous .

    Synonyms

    * (happening at the right time) appropriate, opportune, apt * (working out well) fortunate, opportune

    Antonyms

    * unfelicitous, grammatical/ungrammatical

    Related terms

    * felicity

    Derived terms

    * felicitously * felicitousness * unfelicitous

    ingenious

    English

    Alternative forms

    * engenious

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.
    • This fellow is ingenious ; he fixed a problem I didn't even know I had.
  • Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.
    • That is an ingenious model of the atom.
  • Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.
    • He sent me an ingenious reply for an email.

    Usage notes

    Do not confuse with ingenuous.

    Synonyms

    * See also * See also

    Related terms

    * engine * engineer * genius * ingeniosity * ingeniousness

    References

    * *