Positive personality trait
Ingenious
Cleverly inventive and effective.
4 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Finds a clever, new way through a problem.
- Makes something useful from simple materials.
- Sees a use for a thing that others missed.
Fits when someone finds clever, original ways to solve a problem
Not when the idea is clever but does not work, or ingenious praises a trick
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Resume line Designed [tool, process or fix] that [solved problem], saving [amount of time or money] a [week or year].
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is ingenious: when [problem], they [designed or built a solution] that we still use.
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Report card comment [Name] is ingenious at design and technology and finds new ways to solve problems.
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In a story, shown not told The class had no rain gauge. He cut the top off a bottle, turned it upside down into the base, and taped a ruler to the side.
The ingenious student built a rain gauge from a bottle and a ruler.
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