Definition of "ingenious"

ingenious

/ɪnˈd͡ʒiːnjəs/

adjective
comparative more ingenious, superlative most ingenious
1. (of a person) Displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.
2. (of a thing) Characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done.
  Quotations
  Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude, / protected from the circle of the moon / That pitches common things about.
  1928, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen”, in The Tower, page 32
3. Showing originality or sagacity; witty.
  Quotations
  I have scarcely recovered the surprise of the ingenious question, before I meet another surprise in the still more ingenious answer
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 147