The talented finance minister's ingenuity has helped his bankrupt nation to get out of the red.
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Ingenuity
//ˌɪnd͡ʒəˈn(j)uːəti//
Synonyms for "ingenuity" (96 found)
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47 translations across 27 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- изобретателност noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Catalan
1 entries- enginy noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 創造力 /创造力 noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- 發明才能 /发明才能 noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Danish
1 entries- snedighed noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Dutch
1 entries- vernuft noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Finnish
3 entries- kekseliäisyys noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- nerokkuus noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- nokkeluus noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
French
1 entries- ingéniosité noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Galician
1 entries- enxeño noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
German
4 entries- Einfallsreichtum noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- Findigkeit noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- Raffinesse noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- Scharfsinn noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Hungarian
2 entries- leleményesség noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- találékonyság noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Interlingua
2 entries- ingenio noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- ingeniositate noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Italian
2 entries- ingegno noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- ingegnosità noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Japanese
1 entries- 独創性 noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Macedonian
1 entries- генија́лност noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- kløkt noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- oppfinnsomhet noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- kløkt noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Old Czech
1 entries- chytř noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Ottoman Turkish
2 entries- صنعت noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- هنر noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Portuguese
1 entries- engenhosidade noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Romanian
2 entries- ingeniozitate noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- îndemânare noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Russian
2 entries- изобрета́тельность noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- нахо́дчивость noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- eadar-ghnàth noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- inventívnōst noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- инвенти́вно̄ст noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Slovak
1 entries- vynaliezavosť noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Spanish
2 entries- ingenio noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- ingeniosidad noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Swedish
3 entries- fyndighet noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- genialitet noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- sinnrikhet noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Turkish
4 entries- beceri noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- hüner noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- marifet noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
- ustalık noun (ability to come up with solutions to difficult problems)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
It is nothing that a little persistence and ingenuity can't overcome.
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I admire their ingenuity.
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In spite of the great importance in our national life of the efforts and ingenuity of unusual individuals, the people in the mass have inevitably helped to make large fortunes possible.
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