Synonyms

1. cleverness
2. ingeniousness

Sentence Examples

1. His identification has exercised the best critics and baffled all the ingenuity and research that has been brought to bear on it.
2. Between ingenuity and the analytic ability there exists a difference far greater, indeed, than that between the fancy and the imagination, but of a character very strictly analogous.
3. Circumstances, and a certain bias of mind, have led me to take interest in such riddles, and it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve.
4. The analytical power should not be confounded with ample ingenuity for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.
5. I like him especially for one master stroke of cant, by which he has attained his reputation for ingenuity.
6. It showed some level of ingenuity by the cultists to have figured out how to keep them powered.
7. Of all this silly set the one that shows the least and also the most sense is my rival Anselmo, for having so many other things to complain of, he only complains of separation, and to the accompaniment of a rebeck, which he plays admirably, he sings his complaints in verses that show his ingenuity.
8. This deficiency, however, his ingenuity supplied, for he contrived a kind of half-helmet of pasteboard which, fitted on to the morion, looked like a whole one.
9. for we always conversed, whenever good fortune and my ingenuity gave us the chance, with the greatest gaiety and cheerfulness, mingling tears, sighs, jealousies, doubts, or fears with our words it was all on my part a eulogy of my good fortune that Heaven should have given her to me for my mistress I glorified her beauty, I extolled her worth and her understanding and she paid me back by praising in me what in her love for me she thought worthy of praise and besides we had a hundred thousand trifles and doings of our neighbours and acquaintances to talk about, and the utmost extent of my boldness was to take, almost by force, one of her fair white hands and carry it to my lips, as well as the closeness of the low grating that separated us allowed me.