Mostly ingenious and right? Almost right (4)
I believe the answer is:
near
'right' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'mostly ingenious and right? almost' is the wordplay.
'mostly ingenious' becomes 'ne' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'right?' becomes 'far' ('far' can be similar in meaning to 'right').
'almost' means to remove the first letter.
'far' with its first letter removed is 'ar'.
'ne'+'ar'='NEAR'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for near that I've seen before include "Mean, close" , "Close, not far away" , "Nigh" , "Easy to reach - hard to touch!" , "Close-fisted - approach" .)