ingenious
in-JEEN-yusadjMeaning very clever and inventive
Memory hook in-GENIUS: a little GENIUS. Dev’s robot sorts the laundry by color and folds every sock: an idea worthy of a genius. It is ingenious.
Sami rigged an ingenious pulley that lowers snacks down to his bottom bunk.
In context The flood had washed out the footbridge, but the villagers came up with an ingenious fix: they lashed empty barrels together into a floating walkway.
Similar clever, inventive, creative, brilliant
Opposite unimaginative, clumsy, dull
From Latin ingeniosus, from ingenium, “natural talent, cleverness,” the same source as engine and engineer.