Ingenious vs Erudite - What's the difference?
ingenious | erudite |
Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.
Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.
Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.
Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
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* 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 43:
* 2006 , Jeff Israely, "
As adjectives the difference between ingenious and erudite
is that ingenious is displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent while erudite is .ingenious
English
Alternative forms
* engeniousAdjective
(en adjective)- This fellow is ingenious ; he fixed a problem I didn't even know I had.
- That is an ingenious model of the atom.
- He sent me an ingenious reply for an email.
Usage notes
Do not confuse with ingenuous.Synonyms
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* *erudite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
- Elmer Moffatt had been magnificent, rolling out his alternating effects of humour and pathos, stirring his audience by moving references to the Blue and the Gray, convulsing them by a new version of Washington and the Cherry Tree . . ., dazzling them by his erudite allusions and apt quotations.
Preaching Controversy," Time , 17 Sept.:
- Perhaps his erudite mind does not quite yet grasp how to transform his beloved scholarly explorations into effective papal politics.