{
    "term": "ingenious",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "very suitable for a particular purpose and resulting from clever new ideas",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an ingenious device/invention/experiment"
                },
                {
                    "text": "ingenious ways of saving energy"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His plots are always very ingenious."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "sound"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "having a lot of clever new ideas and good at inventing things",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an ingenious cook"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's very ingenious when it comes to finding excuses."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Personal qualities"],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "sound"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdʒiːniəs/",
                "audio": "in/ingenious/ingenious__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ɪnˈdʒiːniəs/",
                "audio": "in/ingenious/ingenious__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from French ingénieux or Latin ingeniosus, from ingenium ‘mind, intellect’; compare with engine."
}