[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

ingenious \ingen"ious\, a. l. ingeniosus, fr. ingenium innate
   or natural quality, natural capacity, genius: cf. f.
   ing'enieux. see engine.
   1. possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful
      or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to
      form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic.
      1913 webster

            a man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war.
                                                  --hakluyt.
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            thou, king, send out
            for torturers ingenious.              --shak.
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            the more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to
            trouble themselves.                   --sir w.
                                                  temple.
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   2. proceeding from, pertaining to, or characterized by,
      genius or ingenuity; of curious design, structure, or
      mechanism; as, an ingenious model, or machine; an
      ingenious scheme, contrivance, etc.
      1913 webster

            thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill. --cowper.
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   3. witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious
      reply.
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   4. mental; intellectual. obs.
      1913 webster

            a course of learning and ingenious studies. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
engine 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

ingenious
     adj 1: used of persons or artifacts marked by independence and
            creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use
            of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by
            another ingenious english clergyman"- lewis mumford;
            "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of
            mind"; "inventive ceramics" syn: imaginative, inventive
     2: skillful or showing skill in adapting means to ends; "cool
        prudence and sensitive selfishness along with quick
        perception of what is possible--these distinguish an
        adroit politician"; "came up with a clever story"; "an
        ingenious press agent"; "an ingenious scheme" syn: adroit,
         clever
     3: showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the
        cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious
        solution to the problem" syn: clever, cunning
see also:
imaginative inventive adroit clever cunning 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

125 moby thesaurus words for "ingenious":
   daedalian, machiavellian, machiavellic, acute, adept, adroit, apt,
   arch, artful, artistic, astute, authoritative, bravura, bright,
   brilliant, cagey, canny, clean, clever, conceptive, conceptual,
   coordinated, crack, crackerjack, crafty, creative, cunning, cute,
   daedal, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, deft, demiurgic, designing,
   dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, esemplastic, excellent, expert,
   fancy, fecund, feline, fertile, foxy, germinal, gifted, good,
   goodish, graceful, guileful, handy, ideational, ideative,
   imaginative, innovational, innovative, insidious, inspired,
   inventive, keen, knowing, magisterial, masterful, masterly, neat,
   no mean, notional, on the ball, original, originative, pawky,
   politic, pregnant, productive, professional, proficient, prolific,
   quick, quite some, ready, resourceful, scheming, seminal,
   serpentine, shaping, sharp, shifty, shrewd, skilled, skillful,
   slick, slim, slippery, sly, smart, smooth, snaky, sneaky, some,
   sophistical, statesmanlike, stealthy, strategic, stylish, subtile,
   subtle, supple, tactful, tactical, talented, teeming, the compleat,
   the complete, trickish, tricksy, tricky, virtuoso, visioned,
   vulpine, wary, well-done, wily, workmanlike

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