Ingenious vs. Ingenuitive

Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.

Example: ‘This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn't even know I had.’;

Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.

Example: ‘That is an ingenious model of the atom.’;

Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.

Example: ‘He sent me an ingenious reply for an email.’;

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.

Example: ‘A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war.’; ‘Thou, king, send outFor torturers ingenious.’; ‘The more ingenious men are, the more apt are they to trouble themselves.’;

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.

Example: ‘Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill.’;

Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.

Mental; intellectual.

Example: ‘A course of learning and ingenious studies.’;

(used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action;

Example: ‘an imaginative use of material’; ‘the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman’; ‘an ingenious device’; ‘had an inventive turn of mind’; ‘inventive ceramics’;

skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends;

Example: ‘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’;

showing inventiveness and skill;

Example: ‘a clever gadget’; ‘the cunning maneuvers leading to his success’; ‘an ingenious solution to the problem’;

(nonstandard) Possessing ingenuity; ingenious.