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ingenuity - 19 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | ingenuity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cleverness |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, astuteness, brightness, creativity, cunning, dexterity, flair, genius, gumption, intelligence, shrewdness, skill, talent, wisdom, wit, brains, brilliance, inventiveness, resourcefulness, smartness |
| Main Entry: | acumen |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability to understand and reason |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, astuteness, awareness, cleverness, comprehension, cunning, discernment, discrimination, farsightedness, grasp, guile, ingenuity, insight, intellect, intelligence, intuition, judgment, keenness, perception, perspicacity, refinement, sagacity, sensitivity, shrewdness, smarts*, understanding, vision, wisdom, wit, acuity, brains, brilliance, good taste, percipience, perspicuity, sharpness, smartness |
| Notes: | acumen suggests that keenness relates to a person's mind, whereas acuity suggests that it relates to a person's performance; acumen is something that a person has, whereas acuity is something that a person displays |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, stupidity, denseness, ineptness, obtuseness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | creativity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | artistry |
| Synonyms: | cleverness, genius, imagination, ingenuity, inspiration, originality, talent, vision, imaginativeness, inventiveness, resourcefulness |
| Main Entry: | dexterity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aptitude, ability |
| Synonyms: | address, adroitness, art, artistry, cleverness, craft, cunning, expertise, facility, finesse, ingenuity, knack, know-how, mastery, neatness, nimbleness, proficiency, readiness, skill, smoothness, tact, touch, aptness, deftness, effortlessness, expertness, handiness, skillfulness |
| Antonyms: | awkwardness, clumsiness, inability, ineptness |
| Main Entry: | genius |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift of high intellect |
| Synonyms: | ability, accomplishment, acumen, acuteness, adept, aptitude, astuteness, bent, brain, capability, capacity, creativity, discernment, endowment, expert, faculty, flair, grasp, head, imagination, inclination, ingenuity, inspiration, intelligence, knack, mature, originality, perspicacity, power, prodigy, propensity, prowess, reach, sagacity, talent, turn, understanding, virtuoso, wisdom, Einstein, aptness, brilliance, inventiveness, percipience, precocity, superability |
| Antonyms: | idiot, imbecile |
| Main Entry: | imagination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power to create in one's mind |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, artistry, awareness, chimera, cognition, conception, creation, creativity, enterprise, fabrication, fancy, fantasy, flight of fancy*, idea, illusion, image, imagery, ingenuity, insight, inspiration, intelligence, invention, notion, originality, realization, sally, supposition, thought, thoughtfulness, verve, vision, wit, creative thought, ideality, inventiveness, mental agility, perceptibility, resourcefulness, unreality, visualization, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | being, entity, existence, material, reality, substance, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | knack |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, talent |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, bent, capacity, command, dexterity, expertise, facility, faculty, flair, forte, genius, gift, head*, ingenuity, know-how, nose*, propensity, quickness, readiness, savvy*, set, skill, trick, turn, aptness, expertism, expertness, handiness, hang of it, mastership, skillfulness |
| Antonyms: | inability, ineptitude, lack, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | know-how |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill, talent |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, aptitude, art, background, capability, command, craft, cunning, dexterity, experience, expertise, faculty, flair, ingenuity, knack, knowledge, proficiency, savoir-faire, wisdom, expertness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, lack, want |
| Main Entry: | originality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creativeness |
| Synonyms: | boldness, cleverness, creativity, daring, freshness, imagination, individuality, ingenuity, innovation, invention, newness, nonconformity, novelty, spirit, brilliance, creative spirit, imaginativeness, ingeniousness, innovativeness, inventiveness, modernity, new idea, resourcefulness, unconventionality, unorthodoxy |
| Antonyms: | orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | resource |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | supply drawn upon, either material or nonmaterial |
| Synonyms: | ability, appliance, artifice, assets, capability, capital, cleverness, contraption, contrivance, course, creation, device, expedient, fortune, hoard, ingenuity, initiative, makeshift, means, measure, method, mode, nest egg*, property, recourse, refuge, relief, reserve, riches, shift, source, step, stock, stockpile, store, stratagem, substance, substitute, support, surrogate, system, talent, way, wealth, worth, inventiveness, quick-wittedness, resourcefulness |
| Antonyms: | product |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | skill |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ability, talent to do something |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, address, adroitness, aptitude, art, artistry, cleverness, clout, command, competence, craft, cunning, deftness, dexterity, dodge*, ease, experience, expertise, expertism, expertness, facility, finesse, goods*, handiness, ingenuity, intelligence, job, knack*, know-how*, line, makings, moxie*, one's thing, profession, proficiency, prowess, quickness, readiness, right stuff*, savvy*, skillfulness, sleight, smarts*, stuff*, technique, trade, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inability, incapability, incapacity, inexperience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | art |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill, creativity |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, aptitude, artistry, craft, dexterity, expertise, facility, imagination, ingenuity, knack, know-how, knowledge, mastery, method, profession, trade, craftsmanship, inventiveness, virtuosity |
| Antonyms: | lack, unskill |
| Main Entry: | craft |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expertise, skill |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, aptitude, art, artistry, cleverness, competence, cunning, dexterity, ingenuity, knack, know-how*, proficiency, technique, adeptness, expertness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invention |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creation, creativeness |
| Synonyms: | apparatus, black box*, coinage, concoction, contraption, contrivance, creativity, design, development, device, discovery, doodad*, gadget, genius, gimmick, gizmo*, imagination, ingenuity, innovation, inspiration, novelty, opus, original, originality, brainchild, inventiveness, resourcefulness |
| Antonyms: | steal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | judgment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | common sense |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, apprehension, astuteness, awareness, capacity, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, experience, genius, grasp, ingenuity, intelligence, intuition, keenness, knowledge, mentality, penetration, perception, perspicacity, prudence, quickness, range, reach, readiness, reason, reasoning, sagacity, sanity, sapience, savvy, sense, shrewdness, sophistication, soundness, taste, understanding, wisdom, wit, brains, incisiveness, percipience, rationality, sharpness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, inanity, stupidity, misjudgment |
| Main Entry: | mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intelligence |
| Synonyms: | attention, brain*, capacity, cognizance, conception, consciousness, creativity, faculty, function, genius, head, imagination, ingenuity, instinct, intellect, intellectual, intuition, judgment, lucidity, mentality, observation, perception, power, psyche, reason, reasoning, regard, sanity, sense, soul, soundness, spirit, talent, thinker, thought, understanding, wisdom, apperception, brainpower, brains, intellectuality, marbles, percipience, ratiocination, wits |
| Antonyms: | body, corporeality, physicality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | natural or acquired power in a |
| Synonyms: | adroitness, bent, capability, cleverness, command, craft, expertise, finesse, flair, genius, gift, ingenuity, knack, know-how, mastery, proficiency, savvy, skill, strength, talent, deftness, expertness, handiness, mind for, particular activity adeptness, skillfulness, the goods, the right stuff, what it takes |
| Antonyms: | clumsiness, ignorance, inability, inadequacy, inanity, incompetence, stupidity, weakness |
| Main Entry: | artifice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skill, cleverness |
| Synonyms: | ability, adroitness, facility, finesse, ingenuity, invention, know-how*, skill, deftness, inventiveness |
| Antonyms: | artlessness, inability, incapacity, simplicity, uncleverness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wit/wits |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | judgment, intelligence |
| Synonyms: | acumen, acuteness, astuteness, awareness, balance, cleverness, common sense, comprehension, discernment, discrimination, esprit, grasp, ingenuity, insight, keenness, lucidity, mentality, mind, perception, perspicacity, practicality, prudence, reason, sagacity, sanity, sapience, sense, shrewdness, soundness, understanding, wisdom, astucity, brainpower, brains, depth of perception, marbles, rationality, sagaciousness, sageness, saneness |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, stupidity |
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