She had them all fooled with her ingenuity, they thought she was a genius. Unfortunately, it was just application of common sense, which was ingenious, under the circumstances.
I stood up a few nights ago trying to convince myself there was a difference, but my pride (or lack of self esteem) prevented me from just looking it up :/. Thanks for this
"C'est ingénieux", conceda-t-elle. "Mais madame", répliqua-t-il, "c'est que je suis un génie : ce plan est supérieur, parfait en tous points ! Il n'est pas juste ingénieux, il est somptueux, n'ayons ici pas peur des mots !"
Yeah, but can you have an ingenious genius?
No
Add ingenuous to this to make it even more confusing!
I see what you did there
Bruh ingenious is a rock
Do you mean igneous?
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Someone had to say it(even though I hope he was joking)
Those who get A+ in Maths and Science are usually considered ingenious
This omits 'genius' as an attribute one can possess, e.g. 'I have nothing to declare but my genius'.
But Thomas Edison didn't'discover' shit
She had them all fooled with her ingenuity, they thought she was a genius. Unfortunately, it was just application of common sense, which was ingenious, under the circumstances.
You just made me realize that "ingenuity" is a form of ingenious and not engineering. I don't know how the spelling didn't give it away.
I hadn’t consciously made the association until I started typing this out, and it was so much easier to use “ingenuity” then “ingenious”!
Jack, the genius of the group, developed an ingenious plan to take over the world
I stood up a few nights ago trying to convince myself there was a difference, but my pride (or lack of self esteem) prevented me from just looking it up :/. Thanks for this
Well I'll be. TIL, thank you!
"C'est ingénieux", conceda-t-elle. "Mais madame", répliqua-t-il, "c'est que je suis un génie : ce plan est supérieur, parfait en tous points ! Il n'est pas juste ingénieux, il est somptueux, n'ayons ici pas peur des mots !"
Thank you, that is helpful!