Synonyms for Ingenious:

• adj.

  •able (adjective)
  • most efficient,
  • know onions,
  • know backwards forwards,
  • more efficient,
  • up snuff,
  • therest,
  • up speed,
  • know ropes,
  • pre pared,
  • up it,
  • know one onions,
  • more skilled,
  • therer,
  • pre-pared,
  • most capable,
  • powerful,
  • know ones onions.
  •acute (adjective)
  • in-tenser,
  • in tensest,
  • in-tense,
  • quickwitted,
  • in-tensest,
  • dis-criminating,
  • observant,
  • dis criminating,
  • quick witted,
  • in tenser,
  • in tense,
  • more acute.
  •adroit (adjective)
  • quick uptake,
  • on ball,
  • slick,
  • most up,
  • more wizard,
  • on the beam,
  • whizest,
  • on beam,
  • most wizard,
  • quick trigger,
  • more crackerjack,
  • most crackerjack,
  • more up,
  • neater,
  • foxy,
  • quick the trigger,
  • quick on uptake,
  • quick the uptake,
  • whizer.
  •all (adjective)
  • ingenious,
  • clever.
  •apt (adjective)
  • nobodys fool,
  • prompt,
  • nobody fool,
  • teachable,
  • nobody's fool.
  •artful (adjective)
  • de-signing,
  • de signing.
  •bright (adjective)
  • having smarts,
  • eggheaded,
  • wideawake,
  • Clear-headed.
  •brilliant (adjective)
  • pro founder,
  • pro found,
  • most knowledgeable,
  • pro-founder,
  • more genius,
  • most genius,
  • whippest,
  • pro-found.
  •canny (adjective)
  • most nimble-witted,
  • most nimblewitted,
  • most streetwise,
  • more nimble witted,
  • more nimblewitted,
  • heppest,
  • Worldlywise,
  • wisest,
  • more careful,
  • more streetwise,
  • nimblewitted,
  • most nimble witted,
  • nimble witted,
  • more nimble-witted.
  •clever; brilliant (adjective)
  • innovative,
  • bright,
  • ready,
  • dexterous,
  • inventive,
  • skillful,
  • innovational,
  • Deviceful,
  • crafty.
  •creative (adjective)
  • visionary,
  • productive,
  • fertile,
  • originative,
  • inspired,
  • prolific,
  • Demiurgic,
  • constructive,
  • leading-edge,
  • conceptive.
  •cunning (adjective)
  • designing,
  • tricky,
  • Slighty,
  • astute,
  • quick,
  • wary,
  • witty,
  • devious,
  • wily,
  • snaky,
  • well-laid,
  • scheming,
  • well-planned,
  • masterful,
  • smooth,
  • masterly,
  • serpentine,
  • slippery,
  • feline,
  • sharp,
  • calculating.
  •deft (adjective)
  • having know how,
  • having knowhow,
  • fleet.
  •discerning (adjective)
  • most clear-sighted,
  • more clearsighted,
  • more percipient,
  • in sighted,
  • more insighted,
  • more gnostic,
  • most insighted,
  • most clear sighted,
  • most percipient,
  • gnostic,
  • most clearsighted,
  • clear sighted,
  • most gnostic,
  • in-sighted,
  • more clear sighted,
  • more clear-sighted.
  •elegant (adjective)
  • well-bred,
  • recherche,
  • ostentatious.
  •expressive (adjective)
  • re-presentative,
  • most revelatory,
  • re presentative,
  • under-standing,
  • silver tongued,
  • suggestive,
  • expressive,
  • forcible,
  • under standing,
  • more understanding,
  • more revelatory,
  • silvertongued.
  •gifted (adjective)
  • more hotshot,
  • have ball,
  • have the ball,
  • have goods,
  • have on ball,
  • have smarts,
  • most hotshot.
  •imaginative (adjective)
  • most blue sky,
  • most blue-sky,
  • most bluesky,
  • more blue sky,
  • more bluesky,
  • high flown,
  • avantgarde,
  • bluesky,
  • highflown,
  • more pie in the sky,
  • most pie-in-the-sky,
  • more pie-in-the-sky,
  • most pie in the sky,
  • more blue-sky.
  •innovative (adjective)
  • more cuttingedge,
  • newfangled,
  • most cutting edge,
  • more cutting edge,
  • more innovative,
  • most cutting-edge,
  • more cutting-edge,
  • most cuttingedge,
  • cuttingedge.
  •intelligent (adjective)
  • more intelligent,
  • all there,
  • well-informed.
  •inventive (adjective)
  • most forgetive,
  • fruitful,
  • more forgetive,
  • more causative,
  • most causative.
  •original (adjective)
  • unique,
  • novel,
  • genuine,
  • untried,
  • initial,
  • prototypical,
  • most novel,
  • first,
  • causal,
  • authentic.
  •quaint (adjective)
  • most old-world,
  • most captivating,
  • more old-world,
  • most oldworld,
  • more oldworld,
  • most old world,
  • old-world,
  • more old world,
  • oldworld,
  • more captivating.
  •readable (adjective)
  • well-written.
  •resourceful (adjective)
  • re-sourceful,
  • re sourceful.
  •savvy (adjective)
  • in the know.
  •sharp (adjective)
  • smart as a tack,
  • penetrative.
  •shrewd (adjective)
  • on inside,
  • most argute,
  • most astucious,
  • wised up,
  • sharkest,
  • in side,
  • Sharker,
  • shrewdest,
  • under-hand,
  • more astucious,
  • more argute,
  • under hand.
  •sly (adjective)
  • most bluffing,
  • doubledealing,
  • more dissembling,
  • dis honorable,
  • more conniving,
  • more bluffing,
  • most plotting,
  • more plotting,
  • un scrupulous,
  • impish,
  • most conniving,
  • dis honest,
  • most dissembling,
  • dis-honest,
  • un-scrupulous,
  • dis-honorable.
  •smart (adjective)
  • most long haired,
  • more long-haired,
  • more longhaired,
  • skullest,
  • most long-haired,
  • long haired,
  • skull,
  • smart,
  • skuller,
  • more long haired,
  • longhaired,
  • most longhaired.
  •subtle (adjective)
  • understated,
  • hairline,
  • implied.
  •talented (adjective)
  • more talented,
  • end-owed,
  • having knack,
  • end owed.
  •witty (adjective)
  • droll,
  • urbane,
  • campier,
  • scurrilous,
  • sophisticated,
  • sarcastic,
  • campy,
  • dry,
  • waggish,
  • quick-witted,
  • scintillating,
  • jocular,
  • campiest,
  • facetious,
  • pointed,
  • funny,
  • joking,
  • pithy,
  • epigrammatic,
  • sparkling,
  • comical.

• n.

  •
  • discerning,
  • wise,
  • academic.
  •
  • meditative,
  • ability,
  • reasoned,
  • incisive,
  • perceptive,
  • sound,
  • insightful,
  • thoughtful,
  • deductive.
  •clever (noun)
  • study at clever,
  • artistic.

• Other synonyms:

  •many-sided
  • versatile.
  •Other relevant words:
  • slimy,
  • pregnant,
  • rare,
  • some,
  • intellectual,
  • authoritative,
  • seminal,
  • workmanlike,
  • smarmy,
  • not difficult,
  • responsive,
  • on the ball,
  • far-sighted,
  • conceited,
  • deep-laid,
  • statesmanlike,
  • mercurial,
  • discreet,
  • ideational,
  • deceptive,
  • cagy,
  • firsthand,
  • practical,
  • exquisite,
  • professional,
  • sneaky,
  • accomplished,
  • excellent,
  • creation,
  • underhand,
  • piquant,
  • fresh,
  • unprecedented,
  • superlative,
  • happy,
  • stylish,
  • adept,
  • penetrating,
  • Trickish,
  • far-fetched,
  • calculated,
  • Visioned,
  • superb,
  • farcical,
  • conceptual,
  • good,
  • insidious,
  • master,
  • ideative,
  • goodish,
  • Bravura,
  • enterprising,
  • deep,
  • Foxlike,
  • long-headed,
  • wicked,
  • sagacious,
  • alert,
  • cute,
  • capable,
  • dextrous,
  • felicitous,
  • sage,
  • aware,
  • superior,
  • guileless,
  • proficient,
  • Keen-witted,
  • efficient,
  • stealthy,
  • tactical,
  • sardonic,
  • humorous,
  • shifty,
  • notional,
  • swift,
  • Esemplastic,
  • underived,
  • abstruse,
  • tricksy,
  • practised,
  • Subtile,
  • enlightened,
  • coordinated,
  • pawky,
  • diplomatic,
  • politic,
  • shaping,
  • expert,
  • perspicacious,
  • evasive,
  • tactful,
  • unusual,
  • precocious,
  • sophistical,
  • knavish,
  • underhanded,
  • slim,
  • nimble,
  • discriminating,
  • endowed,
  • deceitful,
  • disingenuous,
  • ludicrous,
  • generative,
  • wise man,
  • street smart,
  • knowing,
  • arch,
  • magisterial,
  • casuistic,
  • machiavellian,
  • cagey,
  • facile,
  • skilful,
  • supple,
  • detailed,
  • comic,
  • dodgy,
  • brainy,
  • Daedalian,
  • jesuitical,
  • Sharp-witted,
  • teeming,
  • crackerjack,
  • fancy,
  • keen,
  • skilled,
  • graceful,
  • neat,
  • vigorous,
  • virtuoso,
  • crack,
  • fantastic,
  • germinal,
  • Promethean,
  • amusing,
  • strategic,
  • fecund,
  • Plotting,
  • clean,
  • competent,
  • well-done,
  • manipulative,
  • Daedal,
  • sensitive,
  • alive to,
  • outstanding,
  • inspiring.

Paraphrases for Ingenious:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    smart, smarter, sophisticated, cunning, elaborate.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    resourceful, inventive, clever, imaginative, intelligent, astute, crafty, brilliant, creative, wise, shrewd, neat.

Antonyms for Ingenious:

• adj.

  • clever; brilliant
    incompetent, honest, untalented, unresourceful, unimaginative, open, uninventive, awkward, stupid, inept, foolish, dull, dumb, uncreative, ignorant.
  • Other antonyms:
    stodgy, hackneyed, pedantic, bungling, pedestrian, infertile, canned, imitative, derivative, idiotic, maladroit, senseless, clumsy, Thick-headed, useless, unoriginal, slow, impractical, uninspired, assembly line, unproductive, cookie-cutter, witless.