Industrious vs Ingenuity - What's the difference?
industrious | ingenuity |
Hard-working and persistent; worksome.
The ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.
Ingenuousness; honesty, straightforwardness.
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As an adjective industrious
is hard-working and persistent; worksome.As a noun ingenuity is
the ability to solve difficult problems, often in original, clever, and inventive ways.industrious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I was very industrious in my effort to learn unicycle riding.
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English
Noun
(en-noun)- The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.
- Poverty is the mother of ingenuity .
- Ingenuity is one of the characteristics of a beaver.
- And therefore I apply my selfe to ingenuitie , and ever to speake truth and what I think.
