ingenious
in-gen-ious / ĭn-jēn-yəs
adjective clever, skillful He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834 imaginative and original Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. Arthur Helps, 1813 - 1875 (obsolete) brilliant, possessing genius To be humane, we must ever be ready to pronounce that wise, ingenious and modest statement 'I do not know'. Galileo Galilei, 1564 - 1642