ingenious

adj

1. Of a person, displaying genius or brilliance; inventive.

   “This fellow is ingenious; he fixed a problem I didn’t even know I had.”

2. Of a thing, characterized by genius; cleverly contrived or done.

   “That is an ingenious model of the atom.”

   “Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude, / protected from the circle of the moon / That pitches common things about.”

3. Showing originality or sagacity; witty.

   “He sent me an ingenious reply to an email.”

   “I have scarcely recovered the surprise of the ingenious question, before I meet another surprise in the still more ingenious answer”