ingenuitive

adj

ingenuitive

adj

/ˌɪnd͡ʒəˈn(j)uːətɪv/

Etymology From ingenuity + -ive.

1

Nonstandard Possessing ingenuity; ingenious.

  • 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.
4 more examples
  • The local building restrictions, and existing site conditions, ...are not available to allow for ingenuitive or passive design features2003 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:
  • 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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