Ingenious vs. Sagacious — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Ingenious and Sagacious
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Definitions
Ingenious
Having great inventive skill and imagination
An ingenious negotiator.
Sagacious
Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness.
Ingenious
Marked by or exhibiting originality or inventiveness
An ingenious solution to the problem.
Sagacious
Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.
Ingenious
(Obsolete) Having genius; brilliant.
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Sagacious
Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
Ingenious
Of a person: Displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.
This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn’t even know I had.
Sagacious
Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.
Instinct . . . makes them, many times, sagacious above our apprehension.
Only sagacious heads light on these observations, and reduce them into general propositions.
Ingenious
Of a thing: characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done.
That is an ingenious model of the atom.
Sagacious
Acutely insightful and wise;
Much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument
Observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions
A source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators
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Ingenious
Showing originality or sagacity; witty.
He sent me an ingenious reply to an email.
Sagacious
Skillful in statecraft or management;
An astute and sagacious statesman
Ingenious
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.
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.
Ingenious
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.
Thus men go wrong with an ingenious skill.
Ingenious
Witty; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious; as, an ingenious reply.
Ingenious
Mental; intellectual.
A course of learning and ingenious studies.
Ingenious
(used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action;
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
Ingenious
Skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends;
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
Ingenious
Showing inventiveness and skill;
A clever gadget
The cunning maneuvers leading to his success
An ingenious solution to the problem
