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Ingenious vs Ingenuitive - What's the difference?

ingenious | ingenuitive |

As adjectives the difference between ingenious and ingenuitive

is that ingenious is displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent while ingenuitive is possessing ingenuity; ingenious.

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

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    ingenuitive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (nonstandard) Possessing ingenuity; ingenious.
  • * 1999 April 28, Eugene Chiaramonte, “The Auxer Group, Inc. Announces the Acquisition of Hardyston Distributors”, Business Wire , Business Wire Newswire
    • "Hardyston Distributors is a solid small but growing company. Mr. Ernest DeSaye Jr. is an enthusiastic and ingenuitive individual who has worked extremely hard in developing a nice niche in the marketplace.... "
  • * 2003 June 1, Ben Connor, ‘Good Buddha & tzu: "middle-class wiggers from the underside". (Peer Reviewed Paper)’, Youth Studies Australia , Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies
    • First, hip hop originated in the ghettos as a cheap and ingenuitive means of entertainment: it was the instrumental side of a record... with a guy on a microphone talking to the crowd.
  • * 2003 August, Sue Roaf, Ecohouse 2 , page 377, Architectural Press
    • The local building restrictions, and existing site conditions, ... are not available to allow for ingenuitive or passive design features
  • * 2004 November, Cristian Macavei, A Series of Robbing Thieves , page 180, Virtualbookworm Publishing
    • The ingenuitive men soon found a large archway leading to the outside of the cave.
  • * 2006 February, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-paper , page 111, Ohio University Press
    • Not to be overly ingenuitive , but “him” is exactly, verbally equidistant between “baby” and “John”