ingenuitive

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/ˌɪnd͡ʒəˈn(j)uːətɪv/

adjective

Possessing ingenuity; ingenious.

Scrabble 15

Meanings

adjectiveingenuitive (comparative more ingenuitive, superlative most ingenuitive)

comparative more ingenuitive · superlative most ingenuitive

  1. nonstandardPossessing ingenuity; ingenious.

    2015, Lin Manuel Miranda, Hamilton, Act I, “Guns and Ships” 'Cause he knows what to do in the trench, ingenuitive, and fluent in French,'

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    1999 April 28, Eugene Chiaramonte, “The Auxer Group, Inc. Announces the Acquisition of Hardyston Distributors”, Business Wire, Business Wire Newswire "Hardyston Distributors is a solid small but growing company. Mr. Ernest DeSaye Jr. is an enthusiastic and ingenuitive individual who has worked extremely hard in developing a nice niche in the marketplace...."

    2003 June 1, Ben Connor, ‘Good Buddha & tzu: "middle-class wiggers from the underside". (Peer Reviewed Paper)’, Youth Studies Australia, Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies First, hip hop originated in the ghettos as a cheap and ingenuitive means of entertainment: it was the instrumental side of a record...with a guy on a microphone talking to the crowd.

    The local building restrictions, and existing site conditions, ...are not available to allow for ingenuitive or passive design features

    2003 August, Sue Roaf, Ecohouse 2, Architectural Press, page 377

    The ingenuitive men soon found a large archway leading to the outside of the cave.

    2004 November, Cristian Macavei, A Series of Robbing Thieves, Virtualbookworm Publishing, page 180

    Not to be overly ingenuitive, but “him” is exactly, verbally equidistant between “baby” and “John”

    2006 February, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-paper, Ohio University Press, page 111

Origin

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