intuitive
perceiving directly by intuition without rational thought, as a person or the mind.
perceived by, resulting from, or involving intuition: intuitive knowledge.
having or possessing intuition: an intuitive person.
capable of being perceived or known by intuition.
easy to understand or operate without explicit instruction: an intuitive design;an intuitive interface.
Origin of intuitive
1Other words for intuitive
Other words from intuitive
- in·tu·i·tive·ly, adverb
- in·tu·i·tive·ness, noun
- non·in·tu·i·tive, adjective
- non·in·tu·i·tive·ness, noun
- qua·si-in·tu·i·tive, adjective
- un·in·tu·i·tive, adjective
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How to use intuitive in a sentence
It seemed gratuitous and counter-intuitive in a story that had already inflicted more than enough suffering.
Playing the foul-mouthed bad character will become as predictable and counter-intuitive as a playing a thousand Joeys.
How Can Katie Holmes Escape Tom Cruise—and ‘Dawson’s Creek’? | Tim Teeman | October 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMore than any other media proprietor, Rupert Murdoch had an intuitive revelation about the value of news as a commodity.
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine | Clive Irving | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe began painting what he would call “intuitive abstractions,” and “cosmic cubism.”
She is a woman with strong, provocative, and deceptively intuitive opinions.
In some intuitive way, surviving probably from the somnambulism, she knew or guessed as much as I knew.
Three More John Silence Stories | Algernon BlackwoodSo strong is the tendency to ascribe an intuitive character to judgments which are mere inferences, and often false ones.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart MillNow Intelligence possesses them by thought, a thought which is not discursive (but intuitive).
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 3 | Plotinos (Plotinus)In other words, the technician is the man who invents or preserves labels to be pasted on the intuitive practices of his art.
Seeing Things at Night | Heywood BrounOne of his precious ideals citadeling womanhood crumbled with intuitive rapidity.
Mountain | Clement Wood
British Dictionary definitions for intuitive
/ (ɪnˈtjuːɪtɪv) /
resulting from intuition: an intuitive awareness
of, characterized by, or involving intuition
Derived forms of intuitive
- intuitively, adverb
- intuitiveness, noun
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