different between ingenious vs groovy

English

Alternative forms

• engenious (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French ingénieux, from Old French engenious, from Latin ingeni?sus (“endowed with good natural capacity, gifted with genius”), from ingenium (“innate or natural quality, natural capacity, genius”), from in- (“in”) +? gignere (“to produce”), Old Latin genere. See also engine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?d?i?nj?s/, /?n?d?i?ni?s/
• Rhymes: -i?ni?s
• Hyphenation: in?ge?nious

Adjective

ingenious (comparative more ingenious, superlative most ingenious)

1. (of a person) Displaying genius or brilliance; tending to invent.

2. (of a thing) Characterized by genius; cleverly done or contrived.

3. Witty; original; shrewd; adroit; keen; sagacious.

Usage notes

Do not confuse with ingenuous.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:witty
• See also Thesaurus:intelligent

Related terms

Translations

References

• ingenious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ingenious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• groovey

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???uvi/
• Rhymes: -u?vi

Etymology 1

groove +? -y

Adjective

groovy (comparative groovier, superlative grooviest)

1. Of, pertaining to, or having grooves.

   The back of the tile was groovy so that it could hold the adhesive compound.

2. (dated) Set in one's ways.
   • 1909, Rudyard Kipling, The House Surgeon

     She'd give anything to be able to believe it, but she's a hard woman, and brooding along certain lines makes one groovy.

Translations

Etymology 2

From the phrase in the groove, originally in reference to the grooves of an early phonograph record.

Adjective

groovy (comparative groovier, superlative grooviest)

1. (dated, slang) Cool, neat, interesting, fashionable. [popular in the 1940s and again in the 1960s-1970s]

Derived terms

• grooviness

Translations

Noun

groovy (plural groovies)

1. (dated, slang) A trendy and fashionable person.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989